“Trapped Under a Boulder for 127 Hours | The True Story of Aron Ralston” — Transcript

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1. 0:00You are hiking alone through a silent
2. 0:03canyon in the middle of the desert. No
3. 0:06phone signals, no people for miles,
4. 0:08justing walls of red rocks. Suddenly a
5. 0:12messy water shifted and in a split
6. 0:14second your army trapped under a 800 lb
7. 0:18rock. You scream but no one hear you.
8. 0:21They cross your water run out. Your body
9. 0:24growers
10. 0:26and then you realize something
11. 0:27terrifying. There was no one out to
12. 0:30survive. You must cut off your oven arm
13. 0:33there. This is a note fiction. This is a
14. 0:36real story of Iron Rston.
15. 0:40Arl Renston loves adventure. Mountains
16. 0:43can hang on landscapes.
17. 0:46He felt most alive in a place where few
18. 0:49people dared to go. Growing up, Iron
19. 0:52developed a passion for climbing and
20. 0:54exploring the outdoors. [music] for him.
21. 0:57The fireness was not dangerous. It was
22. 1:00freedom. But freedom something comes
23. 1:02with a price. April 26th, 20003. [music]
24. 1:07A clear Saturday morning. Iron pack his
25. 1:09gear and headed towards [music] the
26. 1:12desert of Uta. His destination blue John
27. 1:15Canyon. A remote maze of narrow
28. 1:18sandstone.
29. 1:20Beautiful but extremely isolated. Iron
30. 1:24made one critical mistake that he didn't
31. 1:27tell anyone where he was gone. No map
32. 1:30shirt, no training, [music] just him and
33. 1:33the man.
34. 1:35The canyon was so [music] high above him
35. 1:38there. Here was quite almost too quiet
36. 1:42climbing down into a narrow slot canyon
37. 1:45sping toward rocks formation. For
38. 1:49experienced climbers, this was normal.
39. 1:52Just another thrilling adventure. But
40. 1:55natural had other plan.
41. 1:58Aron stepped onto [music] a rope to
42. 2:00lower himself into a tight passage. He
43. 2:03grabbed a large boulder for balance,
44. 2:05[music] but the rope was loose.
45. 2:08Suddenly, it shifted. The messy stone
46. 2:11[music] dropped and the oil instant. It
47. 2:14crushed a long right arm against the
48. 2:16canyon wall. The boulder weigh near 800
49. 2:19lb. His arm was completely trapped and
50. 2:23there was no way to pull it out.
51. 2:26At first Iron believed he could free
52. 2:29himself. He pushed the oak. He kicked
53. 2:31it. He tried every angle position.
54. 2:33Nothing moved. Our pass
55. 2:36the desert sun slowly disappeared behind
56. 2:40the canyon wall. Nightfall
57. 2:42and Iron finally realized something
58. 2:45terrifying.
59. 2:47No one knew where he was and no one was
60. 2:50sleeping. The next morning arrived
61. 2:52second
62. 2:54had the little b just [music] a small
63. 2:57bottle. He tension every rock. Every
64. 3:01hour he tried [music] to move the rock
65. 3:03again. Every attempt failed. His arm was
66. 3:06swelling. [music] Pain was constant but
67. 3:09hope keep him going.
68. 3:12Day pass [music] the canyon become a
69. 3:14prison. Byron began recording video
70. 3:17[music] message on his camera. Message
71. 3:19for his family, for his parents, [music]
72. 3:21for anyone who might find the phase. He
73. 3:25spoke calmly, but inside he knew he he
74. 3:29might never leave the canyon.
75. 3:34On the fifth day, by the fifth day, he
76. 3:36bought his water was gone. His body was
77. 3:40severely dehydrated.
78. 3:42He was gay.
79. 3:46That's when it terrifying idea entire
80. 3:49his mind. If the rock would not release
81. 3:52his arm, then maybe he would have to
82. 3:56remove his arm.
83. 3:59The impossible decision. Most people
84. 4:02would give up. Most people would wait
85. 4:05for that. But I was not
86. 4:14he was
87. 4:18material.
88. 4:27[music]
89. 4:36through the remaining tissue. The pain
90. 4:39was unimaginable but demanded it. After
91. 4:44nearby an hour
92. 4:47reached on [music] finally free himself
93. 4:50but the nightmare was not over
94. 4:55to escape the he
95. 4:59to stop everything. Then began hiking
96. 5:02weak exhausted but hung away. After
97. 5:06several months he encountered a family
98. 5:09to hike
99. 5:10they call for rescue.
100. 5:14I personally
101. 5:16rescue that tree. I ran out of the
102. 5:18canyon against it possible.
103. 5:21He had survived
104. 5:25fin. He became one of the most
105. 5:28incredible
106. 5:30story in history. His experience later
107. 5:33inspired the Hollywood films
108. 5:361.7 hours. But beyond the movie, his
109. 5:39story remind us of something powerful.
110. 5:42The human will to survive is stronger
111. 5:46than we can even ever imagine.
112. 5:50[music]
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