127 Hours: The Story Of Aron Ralston

In the first chapter of The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande, “the Problem of Extreme Complexity”, Gawande recalls a story of a little girl from Austria, who fell into an icy pond for thirty minutes and was later fished out. Her parents performed mouth to mouth for several minutes while waiting for a helicopter to take her to a hospital. She was unresponsive for two hours, in most cases victims are pronounced dead, but the medical staff was determined to save her life. In a small hospital, they managed to work on her for hours cutting her open, shoving tubes in her to replace the blood, and drilling holes in her skull to release pressure. She woke up a week later from a coma with only a couple paralyzed limbs and lesions which can heal over

Have you ever gone climbing and got stuck for 5 days and 7 hours?Do you think you could survive these harsh conditions? Over many years of Aron Ralston’s life he has been rock climbing but on this mundane climb, something really bad went wrong. He explains everything in the book Between A Rock And A Hard Place. Over these few days while he was stuck, he had to grow in not only his physical state but also in his mental state. If the situation wasn't bad enough, he only has his left arm that he can use and has a limited supply of food and water.

About one out of every ten people that attempt to climb Mount Everest die. There is a ten percent chance that everyone who climbs the mountain won’t come home to their family and friends. They don’t die well usually either, they are alone, cold, and know that they are going to die. It is actually extremely scary to think of what they are feeling. They sit there and wait knowing that their family won’t see them again, that they are truly alone. There are few exceptions to this, but they don’t end happily either. Beck Weathers was left for dead and he managed to beat the odds and get back to base camp to be sent to the hospital. He lost his hands and had to go through physical therapy. Some say that losing your hands and being scarred

We were always taught how to survive even in the worst conditions. If it's one thing that

In the story The Voyage of the James Caird the entire crew demonstrated mental strength throughout the entire journey. Despite the harsh conditions, they did everything that they could do to survive. When the crew realized that their boat was sinking, they realized that, “Immediate action had to be taken. While the wind howled and the sea shattered over them, the men took turns crawling across the precariously glassy deck to chip away the ice” (Alexander, 20). The crew was just about to quit but they still managed to fix the

Lastly to survive you need to trust your instinct and behave instinctively and deciding what is good and bad.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances, and they become more extraordinary because of it. The most difficult situation leading you to do agonizing choices, you’ll do whatever it takes to survive.

Survival is living on the hope that better things are yet to come in your life. Right now in our country people survive because of hope and the belief that people are good and they will help them out. People survive when they are homeless on the streets only because of the people who are good at heart and give them food or money to buy clothing for the winter. Gerta survived because of her family and friends. Anne Frank survived because she believed that “Despite all the evil going on in the world I still believe that all people are good at heart.”

People will go to the extreme to survive. For example, Bear Grills in his popular TV show “Man vs. Wild”. Once he had to drink his own urine and even sleep inside the carcass of an animal to keep warm. People have been known to do things they normally wouldn’t do in order to survive.

What would you do if you were put into a life or death situation? You could be stranded on an island, lost in the desert, or you could even be lost at sea. There have been countless amounts of stories of people surviving the most bizarre circumstances, but how they did it is truly intriguing. In order to survive against the odds, a person must possess courage and endurance.

The human body will physically and psychologically respond to changes in the environment through biological and cultural ways. In the novel Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel the apocalypse wipes out most of the Earth’s population leaving the survivors behind in a world where all civilization is gone. They must adapt to the conditions in order for survival, in the twenty years past this becomes increasingly evident. In the novel, she suggests that humanity’s ability to adapt under any circumstance is critical to survival, this is shown through the creation of new societies, each town beginning to function, and

In order to survive, people have been known to go to great lengths to which people will go in order to ordinarily do. Survival to me means that to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. “The good lie” (the film), ZombieLand (the movie), and the movie Dorry, all three movies experience a difficult obstacle to face for survival.

Rock climbing looks easy if you look at the right people. When you look at others you might think that you will fall to your death. My story isn't about death it is about courage, bravery, and most of all tough hope.

Instead of risking their lives for their own glory, they do it to help others reach the summit and for the benefits that follow. Besides a natural love for climbing mountains, finances push them to attempt these expeditions over and over. There are reasons guides like Andy Hall feel high pressure to succeed and as Krakauer explains,, “he was savvy enough to understand that the more attention he got from the news media, the easier it would be to coax corporations to open their checkbooks” (32). Hall uses his media attention to fund trips to Mt. Everest and would do whatever it took to help an important climber reach the top and which is essentially where he finds his sense of accomplishment and media attention. Guides like Scott Fischer have to make a name for themselves first, and initially might do so unsafely. Don Peterson speaks of Fischer with awe, proclaiming, “It didn’t matter how much pain he was in- he would ignore it and keep going,” referring to Scott Fischers six months of traveling with “an open suppurating wound” (63). It is possible that with such desperation to succeed and be well known as a climber, guides would risk their lives by ignoring injuries and health. Its evident that even the most skilled still face challenges but continue to pursue a dangerous lifestyle for

From surviving plane crashes to escaping kill orders Louie Zamperini's story is filled with luck. Luck means something different to everyone. Some might say you were in the right place at the right time, and others will say it was meant to be. No matter what luck means to you there is no denying that the story of Louie Zamperini is an astonishing one with luck everywhere. Luck is shown everywhere in his story. For example: when Louie and the rest of his crew were on a search mission there plane failed and crashed hundreds of feet, many people would not be able to survive this yet Louie did. Another example would be when Louie was captive at the Japanese prisoner of war camps, (POW) he evaded the kill all orders issued by the Japanese in times