Climber tells of self-amputation ordeal

Climber Aron Ralston has described how he did the unthinkable – cutting off his own arm to save his life – in his first interview since he walked, bloody and dehydrated, out of a remote Utah canyon.

“I’m not sure how I handled it,” the mechanical engineer-turned-adventurer said, the stump of his right arm in a sling. “I felt pain and I coped with it. I moved on.”