Aron Ralston: Trapped into the Canyon | Between a Rock and a Hard Place [16+] — Transcript

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1. 0:00remember the character in the first
2. 0:02season of the TV show The Walking Dead
3. 0:04who was handcuffed on a rooftop and had
4. 0:06to cut off his own hand with a hacksaw
5. 0:08to escape a horde of cannibalistic
6. 0:11zombies well that actually sort of
7. 0:14happened in real life through there
8. 0:16weren't any Undead involved in April
9. 0:192003 27 years old Aaron ralon was
10. 0:22climbing in Utah's blue John Canyon when
11. 0:25an 363 kg Boulder fell on him crushing
12. 0:29his right hand hand and trapping him
13. 0:31after struggling unsuccessfully to chip
14. 0:34away some of the boulder with his multi-
15. 0:36knife Ron tried to rig a pulley with his
16. 0:39climbing rope to tug The Rock away from
17. 0:41him that didn't work either finally
18. 0:44after being trapped for 6 days Ron
19. 0:47realized that the only way out was to
20. 0:49amputate his crushed arm I had a vision
21. 0:53during that last night that fifth night
22. 0:55that I was there of a little boy that I
23. 0:57saw myself at some point in the future
24. 0:59with with a handless right arm playing
25. 1:01with this little blond-haired
26. 1:03three-year-old and lifting him up and
27. 1:06holding him on on my hip and and the eye
28. 1:09contact that I had with him told me that
29. 1:11this was my future son even through the
30. 1:13pressure of the rock had cut off some of
31. 1:15the circulation and he no longer had any
32. 1:18sensation in his hand cutting through
33. 1:20the nerves and breaking the bones with
34. 1:22his knife was a 100 times worse than any
35. 1:24pain he's felt before amazingly he later
36. 1:28resumed climbing thanks to a a special
37. 1:30prosthetic hand with a built-in climbing
38. 1:32pick Ron's story was recounted in his
39. 1:35book between a rock and a hard place in
40. 1:38the movie 127 Hours
41. 1:41[Applause]
42. 1:44[Music]
43. 2:06[Music]