Climber’s video diary records how he cut off his own arm to save his life

A CLIMBER who escaped death by sawing off his arm which was trapped beneath a fallen rock told yesterday how he kept a video diary of what he thought would be his last hours of life.

Climber’s video diary records how he cut off his own arm to save his life

Aron Ralston, aged 28, spent six days trapped in a remote canyon in Utah. Starving and dehydrated, he even recorded his final goodbyes to his family on his video camera on April 27 last year.

Ralston’s memoir, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, is being published in the United States and excerpts were published in the latest edition of Outside magazine.

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