Climber who cut off trapped arm recalls ordeal

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

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

Aron Ralston, 28, snapped the bones in his own arm before sawing through the flesh with a penknife after spending six days trapped in a remote canyon in Utah.

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