How Did Aron Ralston Survive Forty Hours

Mark Pfetzer starts his climbing experience at twelve years old. He lives in Rhode Island, his director named Christian. Mark at first didn’t trust the rope, but he found where to put his feet, and gained confidence. He loved it. Mark has never liked ball sports, but instead hiking, running, karate, and fly fishing. Mark does not connect with many people his age, so Mark usually hung around people of an older age. To get his training going, Mark wanted to register for the Rock Gym, but has to be fifteen. Since he looks older for his age, he gets past by. Inside of the gym, there is a huge rock wall where he starts climbing on it. There he meets Geoff, a climber and a doctor who says he could do ice climbing if he gets sponsors. Mark starts mailing for sponsor to get $300 to climb Mt. Crawford.

For someone who fell into Aron’s situation and wasn't that athletic as Aron they would have not survived the full five days that Aron was stuck for. During the movie 127 the actor portraying as Aron cut off his own arm in order to escape the boulder that was stuck on his hand. Yea whatever he cut of his hand, but he did after five days later after barely enough food or water. If a non athletic person tried to cut of their hand after five days without enough food and water they would of been too exhausted and or even hardly have life in them to do so. Aron’s physical strength also contributed to him escaping from the canyon and walking to find help and even water

The main character and protagonist, Jon Krakauer, is a United States client and journalist who is on an expedition to climb to the summit of Mt. Everest. He takes the reader through his horrifying experiences on the mountain, including the death of his team, lack of oxygen, and horrible weather. The conflict in this novel is an internal and external conflict. It is an internal conflict of man vs. himself. Jon Krakauer, had to go through mental states of giving up and dying on the mountain

He managed to free himself after amputating his own arm. As a result of his hope Aron Ralstonsurvived. From learning about Aron’s and is experience, we see that in dangerous or life threatening situations hope is crucial and essential, as with hope comes the will to live. Therefore hope is a good thing to have in our lives as it can help save individuals.

In Matthew Hedger’s article “Yosemite National Park Day Hikes: Vernal Falls Death March”, he claims that you don’t always know what you’re getting into and find that things are harder than they seem. Hedger supports his claim with a story of his hike up Vernal Falls. His purpose is to inform his readers that you can always get through difficult things and that they’re stronger than they think. The intended audience is anyone who enjoys a good story and wants to know about hiking.

pp. 143 Tom begins his rehabilitation; running to get fit and attempting to climb ‘the ascent’

In the dictionary, struggle is defined as the strive to achieve or attain something in the face of difficulty or resistance. These two books contradict each other but nevertheless there are some similarities. One similarity that continued to stick out to me as I read through the two books is the common idea of struggle portrayed by both main characters. Whether it’s fiction or nonfiction, these two books showcase struggle in distinct ways. One book is about a boy with a passion for challenging himself in crazy ways, one of which, after months of struggle for his own life under extremely difficult circumstances, eventually costs him his own life. Krakauer stated that “McCandless simply had the misfortune to eat moldy seeds. An innocent mistake, it was nevertheless sufficient to end his life” (Krakauer 194). Krakauer continued on to say how McCandless wrote these words in one of his last writings ever found, “EXTREMELY WEAK, FAULT OF POT. SEED. MUCH TROUBLE JUST TO STAND UP. STARVING. GREAT JEOPARDY.” (Krakauer 189). McCandless long journey of hardship and struggle ended with a grand finale of starvation in a broken down bus, with noone but himself to help. The next book consists of a school teacher who agrees to attempt to give a man, who was wrongly imprisoned and disrespected to a great extent, the opportunity to leave the world as a man with some dignity, not a

Remember: staying focused on climbing (rather than not falling) will help keep your mind calm and focused during a difficult process. And if you get tired during the ascent, try to find a safe place to camp and stop for the night. There's no shame in this: it can actually safe your life!

Aron Ralston, the author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place creates a very notable portrait of himself just within the first few pages of the novel. Ralston presents himself to be tenacious, bold, and a relatively experienced outdoorsman. Ralston describes a faulty trial of climbing, “I’m committed to my course; there’s no going back” (Ralston 20). This quote shows how determined Ralston is to his mission, the hiking trip. It becomes clear that Ralston values nature as he is so committed to this trip. Ralston ponders, “Some other marvelous force is in control, and has been all along” (Ralston 247). Ralston believes in some greater being that controls life. This says a lot about his character as he can believe in something he cannot feel, hear or see. The wilderness is not new to Ralston, as he’s been mountain climbing, hiking, skiing, as well participating in many other outdoor activities for years before his near death experience. Ralston exclaims, “Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning” (Ralston 342). When Ralston was reaching the end in the fight for his life, he began

In the wild , starvation is the number 1 cause of deaths to many citizens roaming the free wild of the world. Chris McCandless was a 24 year old man living the wild. He loved the scenery and getting away from the large crowds of people telling him what to do. Sadly he died of starvation , leaving the world in a painful death in the Alaska mountain. Although Chris had months to living by his own rules , without a doubt it was not worth in writing a book about his life because he disappeared from loving family and friends , he left his belonging and compassion, lastly he wasn't prepared for the

127 Hours Stuck Between A Rock And A Hard Place by Aron Ralston himself is a very dramatic story. This unbelievable true story written about a man who was willing to cut his own arm off in order to live longer. I have some schema towards this book because I’ve heard of the tale before. I couldn’t believe that there was another type of person like Ronnie Lott that is willing

Another character who had to go through a lot of suffering was Katie Nolan; unlike her husband she did not succumb to it. "Katie had the same hardships as Johnny and she was nineteen, two years younger. It might be said that she, too, was doomed. Her life, too, was over before it began. But there the similarity ended. Johnny knew he was doomed and accepted it. Katie wouldn’t accept it. She started a new life where her old one left off […] Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter." Instead of giving up on life like Jhonny did she persevered through it for the sake of her children. The quote I mentioned in the second paragraph can also apply here. She did everything she could to save a couple cents everyday so she could buy land. Another way they persevered through their suffering was by having the aforementioned tin can that was there bank. This helped them by giving them hope that some day they could escape poverty, so thus it helped them

This book is all about Aaron Ralston overcoming his hardships throughout the book. In the beginning of the book Aaron Goes through his supplies making sure he has everything before his long hike planned for the day ahead. As Aaron is hiking he slips and gets his arm stuck in between a boulder. He never thought anyone would find him and he didn't know what to do. In order to overcome this hardship he is going through Aaron plans a schedule of rationing his food and water supply to survive. Aaron tries the wrap a rope around the boulder to try to relieve pressure so he can try to get his arm free but fails. As the idea fails Aaron runs out of ideas and stay in between the rock hoping for someone to find him. Aaron soon enough is running out

I’ve been training myself. In my hovel. I’ve taught myself not to need sleep. A few hours only. I’ll take a ten-hour-a-day job and then I’ll take another ten-hour-a-day job and I’ll save every penny from both except what I need to eat to keep strong, and when i have enough I’ll buy a farm and build a house and make a bed big enough for two” (Goldman

Fizz, goes my coffee machine as I pour myself another cup. The moon shines against the pitch black sky as I remind myself it is presently nightfall as I keep my brain alerted by the caffeine that is in my searing cup. Another sleepless night is before me as I catch up on this morning’s homework. Just as I indulge my cup, I reminiscent throughout the previous four years and how these nights have become a virtual ritual. I can dwindle and instead sleep, or push myself to complete analyzing Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” I always pick the latter because that is what I strive for in life. My hard work and constant insomnia has benefited my behalf in getting into honor roll and to persistent pursuing honors and AP classes every semester. As