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.

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.