That's why I always laugh when idiots die doing dumb shit, like climbing Mount Everest like that's anything new. Fricking idiots GET WHAT THEY FRICKING DESERVE!!!
And their motivation is to be some kind of bigshot and have bragging rights for taking the risk, so don't come crying to me when you get the predictable consequences fricko. Like that Steve Irwin homosexual. Plays with wild animals then dies like a b***h. lol
Unironically, I think I’d probably die.
Not sure if I’d have it in me to start cutting my own arm off, and by the time I realized it was necessary and help wasn’t on the way, I doubt I’d have the strength to do it
Separately, my acting teacher in college showed us this movie because it’s solely focused on one character almost the entire time. Not something I really thought of till it was pointed out
>Separately, my acting teacher in college showed us this movie because it’s solely focused on one character almost the entire time. Not something I really thought of till it was pointed out
did he also show you buried 2010?
Nah, why do you recommend it? Seems very similar, so I might check it out regardless. Thanks for surfacing it!
You think you wouldn't cut off your arm now, but as you get more hungry and dehydrated cutting it off would start to seem more and more tempting.
Oh yeah I agree it would become more and more tempting and logical as time goes on. I just meant that by the time I realized (and was ready to act on) what needed to be done, it would already be too late.
[...]
You may find the strength when you're at your weakest unironically.
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They are afraid of what they might find if their mettle was tested. The guy made a dumb decision, he got himself out of it, he struggled immensely and is clearly a man proven of his will to survive.
Good insight, and I don’t doubt the human spirit and body might overwrite whatever thoughts I have now when it’s time for rubber to meet the road. But just sitting in my room thinking about it, I don’t have a high degree of confidence
Cry, piss myself a little, and die. Seriously I don't think I'd have the willpower to cut through my nerve like that
You may find the strength when you're at your weakest unironically.
These threads always make me irrationally angry. I have a lot of respect for Aron, and his story is quite a captivating one. I usually make several posts defending him, citing the movie, his book, and his many media appearances, all from cynical jerks in these threads who just parrot the same old "I WOULDN'T BE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE" or "SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE ALONE, moron!"
Similar things always wind up happening when I try to defend Christoper McCandless when his threads pop up.
They are afraid of what they might find if their mettle was tested. The guy made a dumb decision, he got himself out of it, he struggled immensely and is clearly a man proven of his will to survive.
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I'm well aware that Aron's carelessness, recklessness, and lack of proper precaution led into his situation. He's certainly not a "hero". He'd be the first to admit all of that.
His lack of planning did not literally cause an 800 pound boulder to tumble onto his arm. That was just a random fluke of the universe. Having then found himself in that situation, the man was able to use his wits, resourcefulness, and emotional gumption to survive for 6 days in that canyon with hardly any food, water, or hope of rescue, before finally doing something that most normal people find to be unthinkable, amputating his own arm with a dull pocket-knife. (Not to mention he then hiked 8 miles and rappelled down a cliff with one arm.) Sure, he brought the situation on himself in some ways, but I don't think that makes his survival any less remarkable. I think when people hear his story, one tends to imagine what they might do if they were in his scenario, and I just think it's too dismissive to just scoff and say, "Well I would never be in that situation and he's a moron."
Fine, but that moron really was in that situation, and he got himself out of there.
You're a pretentious homosexual.
I refuse to discuss this with you and will continue to troll the thread just to spite you.
There was an episode of 'Mr. Robot' where none of the characters spoke at all except at the start and end of the episode and most of the audience didn't even notice. >We don’t have to talk.” >In Sunday’s “Method Not Allowed,” Mr. Robot very literally took Darlene’s (Carly Chaikin) declaration to Elliot (Rami Malek) in the opening moments; no other dialogue was uttered until the very end, with Vera (Elliott Villar) sneaking up on Krista (Gloria Reuben) and declaring, “It’s time we talk.
These threads always make me irrationally angry. I have a lot of respect for Aron, and his story is quite a captivating one. I usually make several posts defending him, citing the movie, his book, and his many media appearances, all from cynical jerks in these threads who just parrot the same old "I WOULDN'T BE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE" or "SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE ALONE, moron!"
Similar things always wind up happening when I try to defend Christoper McCandless when his threads pop up.
I just want to have an actual discussion about Aron's ordeal, because it is a fascinating one on both a logistical level & emotional one. Nobody ever wants to engage though, and 100+ anons always just spam the thread with their extremely funny, original jokes.
He's an actual moron. You should read his book. He had a deathwish. >Go hiking with someone >Tell someone your exact plans >Bring a satellite phone and enough food/water for a few days
He ignored ALL of the rules, and still expects people to feel sympathy for him??
Kek, this has to be bait. No one is THAT moronic, right? >Guy guys hiking and loses his arm
Oh right, of course a moron likes a moron. My bad.
And I read his book too. There were several times when he almost got himself or his friends killed.
Aaron Ralston is a dangerous moron.
I have no idea why anyone would look up to him.
I feel the same way about this guy as I do the Into the Wild guy. They have this pretentious "wanderlust" that drove them toward "adventure" but ended up being real world dangerous situations, which were only dangerous because there were about a thousand things they could have done before they were stuck to plan ahead for the worst case scenario. It's just stupid but it's excused because they were "adventurous souls" or whatever. McCandless didn't have to die and Ralston didn't have to lose his arm if they just planned ahead, and romanticizing what happened to them will just lead other people into the same situations.
I'm well aware that Aron's carelessness, recklessness, and lack of proper precaution led into his situation. He's certainly not a "hero". He'd be the first to admit all of that.
His lack of planning did not literally cause an 800 pound boulder to tumble onto his arm. That was just a random fluke of the universe. Having then found himself in that situation, the man was able to use his wits, resourcefulness, and emotional gumption to survive for 6 days in that canyon with hardly any food, water, or hope of rescue, before finally doing something that most normal people find to be unthinkable, amputating his own arm with a dull pocket-knife. (Not to mention he then hiked 8 miles and rappelled down a cliff with one arm.) Sure, he brought the situation on himself in some ways, but I don't think that makes his survival any less remarkable. I think when people hear his story, one tends to imagine what they might do if they were in his scenario, and I just think it's too dismissive to just scoff and say, "Well I would never be in that situation and he's a moron."
Fine, but that moron really was in that situation, and he got himself out of there.
So what?
There's a huge number of people who have survived impossible situations. Here's a TV show with 58 similar stories:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shouldn%27t_Be_Alive
Aron isn't special. He's a braindead moron.
He's not any more special than all of the other people who got caught in a bad spot and found the fortitude to survive.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I'm well aware of that show, and have seen many episodes. I have a similar respect and admiration for a lot of those people as well. Off the top of my head, the guy who survived 76 days adrift at sea on a small life raft, the guy who had to ice-climb his way out of a crevasse after his climbing partner died from a fall.
>most normal people find to be unthinkable
nah that's normal shit in those situations. what are you gonna do, cry? you just gotta deal with it. also I don't know the story, but you imply he survived 6 days with his arm trapped? what did he do, squeeze water out of the boulder trapping him? he'd die of dehydration in no time, or exposure if it wasn't warm enough to dehydrate him. weird story.
11 months ago
Anonymous
He had about 150 mL of water in a bottle. On about day 3 he started drinking his own urine. But yes, he was very dehydrated, and lost about 40 pounds of bodyweight during his entrapment.
His lack of planning meant no one came to save him when it did. He wouldn't have needed to do most of it if he planned, but not planning was the exciting part for him.
I can't imagine it because I wouldn't be in that situation because I'm not crazy. He's CRAZY. He's wired wrong. I'd bet anything he was loving it, it must have been thrilling for him, because the only reason you go out in the wilderness without plans like that is that you're HOPING something goes wrong and you have to "survivalist" your way out of it.
>to survive for 6 days
If he was half as hard to intelligent as you make him out to be, he would have known the arm wasn't recoverable and he needed to do that A LOT sooner.
Why are you invested in defending these morons? Seriously
This gay got lucky and got mega rich from his moronic story about being a dumbass and almost dying, he doesn't need your sympathy.
I feel the same way about this guy as I do the Into the Wild guy. They have this pretentious "wanderlust" that drove them toward "adventure" but ended up being real world dangerous situations, which were only dangerous because there were about a thousand things they could have done before they were stuck to plan ahead for the worst case scenario. It's just stupid but it's excused because they were "adventurous souls" or whatever. McCandless didn't have to die and Ralston didn't have to lose his arm if they just planned ahead, and romanticizing what happened to them will just lead other people into the same situations.
Separate topic, but the Battle of Mogadishu would've been much different if the US military didn't have stupid "rules of engagement". >Helicopter has hellfire missiles it can't use >Soldiers aren't allowed to pick up guns from dead adversaries. >Military isn't allowed to use A10 Warthogs to clear out large swaths of enemy soldiers in an urban environment.
Etc.
isn't it widely considered moronic to go on dangerous mountain hikes without telling anyone that you're going? I thought that was part of outdoorgay 101
See now here I am over an hour later, got caught up in this thread doing exactly what I said I wasn't going to do in
I've gotta go, gents. It's been fun. See you next 127 Hours thread!
If anyone is genuinely interested to know more about Aron's ordeal, and there is a lot of fascinating, specific information about it that may sway your opinion about him, I'd recommend his book, seen here
Choose your fighter!
Or you could check out this 60 Minutes special about him where he actually revisits the exact spot 1 year later and recounts his ordeal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAEBL3nnIQ
Or at the very least, the excerpt about the amputation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUq_61ps7R0
To say nothing of the fantastically well edited film 127 Hours, which is a technical marvel in that for a film about one guy stuck in one location, the film is very slick and has a lot of kinetic energy.
Adrenaline junkie sports like this, free climbing, and spelunking are surrogate activities that could just as easily be accomplished in a gym. It's the needlessly tempting Fate part that's irksome, a kind of blasphemy indulged by YOLO (no Gods no masters no afterlife) swag types. When they inevitably frick up, someone has to clean up the splatter or waste resources trying to find these thrill junkie yahoos in a bad situation entirely of their own design.
what a stupid post. obviously the DANGER is what people are after when they do these things. so you couldn't do them, in the gym. unless you were doing some really stupid shit in your gym.
I can't speak for one arm wonder but Christopher mccandless was an idiot to any person who is a regular outdoorsman. It's poetic that he spent his last moments in a school bus the one piece of society in the wild because he was never cut out for living off the land
Wasted time and resources by the professionals that have to go out looking for these morons for days before ultimately having to give up. Just do everyone a favor and just have a nice day now and save us all some tax money.
Cut my arm off, what else there is to do? Besides, this movie is the reason why I invested in satellite phone and I always travel with a hunting knife or hand axe. If I have to cut a part of myself off I better do it with the proper tools.
He's an actual moron. You should read his book. He had a deathwish. >Go hiking with someone >Tell someone your exact plans >Bring a satellite phone and enough food/water for a few days
He ignored ALL of the rules, and still expects people to feel sympathy for him??
He literally is.
He goes on speaking tours to get money. He talks at "corporate seminars" and other places where people who have never climbed a hill work.
All real mountaineers think he's a dangerous loser and stay far away from him.
So basically he's Christopher McCandless but he didn't die and is good at self-promotion.
I would chop my arm off, and then I wouldn't tell anyone about it beyond the emergency personel, because it would be an extremely embarrasing and shameful situation. Anyone who goes around bragging about literally being moronic is probably bot that and a psychopath. Idolizing this guy is mental illness.
Well to be fair he's a cripple now. Dude's got one arm. Think of how difficult that would make even a desk job to be missing one arm..
He's dumb but I get why he tried to turn his stupidity into a career. It's a cautionary tale, like those reformed drug addicts who go talk at schools. Being a walking cautuonary tale is arguably the best use of his life now that he's handicapped..
Yes, but telling SOMEONE about his plans and route WOULD HAVE.
I've climbed 14ers.
I've hiked in canyons solo.
I always tell people about my plans, and always bring adequate gear.
I've never had a problem because I'm not a moron.
ok, what if you told someone everything, but you fell into a canyon, a rock fell onto your arm, and your gear was crushed/inaccessible, all you have is a knife.
If you ever have been hiking alone you can think of a hundred things that can still go wrong even after everything in your end is tidy.
>If I don't call/text you by midnight, please call the park authorities and tell them that I'm missing. >Give them this route, it's where I'm going. It's an out-and-back trail. Here's the map.
That's literally it.
Wait about 24-hours to be rescued.
Oh, and I would've had a good knife, extra water, and enough food for an extra day.
>fell off the trail by over 100ft >acoustic shadow >waterfall nearby masks even the loudest cry >arm still pinned
Now what would you do, become a 411 case or make millions telling people *husky voice* "le wolf will chew off its own leg to survive"
11 months ago
Anonymous
Kek
I'm well aware of that show, and have seen many episodes. I have a similar respect and admiration for a lot of those people as well. Off the top of my head, the guy who survived 76 days adrift at sea on a small life raft, the guy who had to ice-climb his way out of a crevasse after his climbing partner died from a fall.
Exactly.
So Aron isn't special.
He's a dumb shithead. He doesn't deserve to go on talks and get paid $25,000 per speaking appearance.
There's not much left to discuss.
Like this guy said,
He's an actual moron. You should read his book. He had a deathwish. >Go hiking with someone >Tell someone your exact plans >Bring a satellite phone and enough food/water for a few days
He ignored ALL of the rules, and still expects people to feel sympathy for him??
if you follow basic rules, you'll go your whole life without losing any limbs.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>if you follow basic rules, you'll go your whole life without losing any limbs.
no, misfortune happens all the time.
what a soibug view >just follow the rules and everything will turn out well
11 months ago
Anonymous
>no, misfortune happens all the time.
Yeah, but if you plan correctly, you can get out of it without some stupid ordeal.
Ya know what, just stay inside and never hike or climb and hills/mountains. I think that would be the best bet for someone with your level of comprehension.
11 months ago
Anonymous
You are the one being evasive about a simple hypothetical.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>misfortune
unprepared cope
11 months ago
Anonymous
How many times do you actually use your gear?
out of 10 pieces of equipment, you can expect at least 1 to fail and require a spare.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I think many of the I Shouldn't Be Alive People could probably convert their stories into captivating motivational speaking engagements. I'm not sure what you're trying to say, or why you're singling out Aron's story. Yes, there are other survival stories in the world, so he's not super special in that regard. His is perhaps a bit more grisly and traumatic than most, I suppose.
In real life it wouldn’t even have hurt because his arm would have been numb from lack of blood flow. But if he admitted that it didn’t hurt it wouldn’t make as good if a story.
It absolutely hurt. The part that was numb was the part that was pinned between the rock and the wall. He obviously had to his arm off in the area where it was still exposed, which still obviously had feeling in it (after he had to use torque to break both of the bones in his arm, no less.) He described the amputation as being very painful, with the worst part being cutting the nerve, which he likened to sticking his entire arm into a vat of liquid metal.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>or why you're singling out Aron's story.
Because Aron is the homosexual who made a career out of it.
11 months ago
Anonymous
He just said if the others were a little more aspirational they could too
11 months ago
Anonymous
Except those people aren't self-centered douchebags (like Aron). They're humbled by the experience for the most part, and are just happy to be alive.
Only narcissistic douchebags write books about it and go on speaking tours and other such bullshit.
11 months ago
Anonymous
And you think Aron is the only survival-story person to make a fortune from their ordeal?
Check out Joe Simpson of 'Touching the Void', Steve Callahand of 'Adrift', Warren MacDonald of 'A Test of Will', Beck Weathers from "Everest"... need I go on?
Every single one of these guys brought their ordeal upon themselves in one way or another.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Yes, and they're all douchebags. But this thread is about that homosexual Aron.
I brought that up is because
These threads always make me irrationally angry. I have a lot of respect for Aron, and his story is quite a captivating one. I usually make several posts defending him, citing the movie, his book, and his many media appearances, all from cynical jerks in these threads who just parrot the same old "I WOULDN'T BE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE" or "SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE ALONE, moron!"
Similar things always wind up happening when I try to defend Christoper McCandless when his threads pop up.
is defending Aron for some bizarre reason. They are all opportunistic douchebags who don't deserve having a career based on their dumbassairy.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Cry more. I will remained INSPIRED and EMOTIONALLY MOVED.
11 months ago
Anonymous
KEK! >Be Aron Ralston, have your own book >James Franco cucks him and gets his picture on Aron's book
That almost makes this all worth it, lmfao
11 months ago
Anonymous
Choose your fighter!
11 months ago
Anonymous
How does he jerk off with the hook hand?
11 months ago
Anonymous
>vat of liquid metal
Oh great comparison everyone knows what that feels like
11 months ago
Anonymous
You are the one being evasive about a simple hypothetical.
No, it's a dumb hypothetical. >I would chop my arm off too >Then I would build a helicopter out of nearby tree branches, and fly to safety.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Is getting stuck while isolated really comparable to building a helicopter out of a nearby tree?
11 months ago
Anonymous
Of course mate, it's a hypothetical.
If I was Aron Ralston, I would've done the same thing (chop me arm off), except on day 2 or 3, not like a moron on day 6.
Oh and I never would've gotten stuck for that long because I would've told several people my route.
In all likelihood I would've gone with friends. Aron didn't HAVE any friends because they all stopped talking to him after he almost got them all killed in an avalanche a few years prior.
Aron was (and is) a dangerous lunatic.
No wonder he has no friends and his wife divorced him.
I would chop my arm off, and then I wouldn't tell anyone about it beyond the emergency personel, because it would be an extremely embarrasing and shameful situation. Anyone who goes around bragging about literally being moronic is probably bot that and a psychopath. Idolizing this guy is mental illness.
Agreed.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Aron didn't HAVE any friends because they all stopped talking to him after he almost got them all killed in an avalanche a few years prior. >Aron was (and is) a dangerous lunatic.
Interested in reading about this moron for the first time in my life, please link me to that shit so that I may laugh.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Rent his book from your local library if you want to read it. It's a shitty book, and it details his reckless/moronic ways.
Oh it's funny too; he never had a girlfriend at this time (because he was such a weirdo/loser) so the book talks about his relationship with his sister because the publisher thought the book needed "at least one female." Even the publishers thought he was a weirdo.
Also he (of course) edited his own Wikipedia page to include details like he was "active in intramural sports".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston
11 months ago
Anonymous
you sound like a weirdo and possibly a samegay
11 months ago
Anonymous
I would chop my arm off, and then I wouldn't tell anyone about it beyond the emergency personel, because it would be an extremely embarrasing and shameful situation. Anyone who goes around bragging about literally being moronic is probably bot that and a psychopath. Idolizing this guy is mental illness.
Well no, because then it wouldn't end up being a notable survival story, would it? >tell spouse/sibling/parent/friend where I'm going just in case, and when I'll be back >get stuck somewhere >Rescued 1 day after I was supposed to return because people knew where to look, and I stayed put
Isn't a very interesting story.
In real life it wouldn’t even have hurt because his arm would have been numb from lack of blood flow. But if he admitted that it didn’t hurt it wouldn’t make as good if a story.
Aron Ralston isn't a b***h, he would've cut his legs off and used them as extra handles to make his way out of the cave. >Haha, John Jones couldn't even survive getting trapped, what a L-O-S-E-R!
I have a panic attack just THINKING about being in a cave like that. The only way the earth is getting me inside of it is a sinkhole opening under my apartment building.
i called these bonehead group of losers the nutty putty nutbags >URGH AAAGH MY TUM TUM THOSE BERRIES WERE ICKY YU KY AAAGH MOMMMY I WANT TO BE A ROCH YUPPY gay NOW PLEASE *shits self to death* >OWIE OWIE OWIE MY ARMY WARMY WHY DIDNT I BRING A PHONE OR TELL SOMEONE OR BRING A KNIFE OR LIFT MORE AAAAA MY HECKIN HANDARINOOOOO >NO I won't follow the map in this 2 in by 1 in cave system. I NEED to see what these new copy paste rocks in total darkness look like! no NO NOOO you will NOT break my legs! I NEED those to walk home to my wIfe and child after I crawl out of mother earth's ass crack here. Hope they enjoy my insurance payout!
I'd die, but first I'd think 'damn maybe I should've just appreciated nature by hiking or mountain climbing like a normal person and not jumping into a fricking canyon like a moron.'
Honestly I thought that I could probably cut my own arm off until I read his account. He had to literally break his arm BEFORE he could cut it off. Cutting is one thing but I don't think I could snap my own bones.
If you truly believe you are going to die, you're able to do a lot of things. Though how much time it takes one to get to that realization might be outpaced by dehydration.
>Are you stuck?
Yes, please help me
>Are you really stuck?
Yes, I already told please why won't you help me? >Are you really, really stuck?
Please, at least send for help if you aren't going to help me >*Unzips pants, starts peeing
Ack, why are you doing this, it smells awful. You must eat a lot of asparagus >That's what you get for cupping Charlyne's buttocks. Tell Seth he's next on the list
He broke the bones. He realized that his arm was pinned tightly enough that if he bent his arm the wrong way with enough force, he could snap his radius and ulna. The knife was too dull to cut through them otherwise.
pull my arm as hard as i can the bones will break and crackle and my skin and also flesh will be ripped off id keep an arm but if its stuck TOO tight or i dont have enough momentum to pull it out ill sever it.
>has metal rock climbing shit right? >rock is not adamantium >chip away rock instead of arm >if a pack of primitive motherfrickers can build pyramids that way, then this fricker can handle one little rock >dumbass
Exactly what he did. Which is why he's still alive. It also made him famous and successful, because people are attracted to the idea of a how far a human can push themselves to live. The dude snapped his own arm and cut through the entire thing with a shitty Walmart tier knife. Pretty incredible he even survived the shock and blood loss mixed with the malnourishment and dehydration
>Pretty incredible he even survived the shock and blood loss mixed with the malnourishment and dehydration
Also the sepsis. He was lucky that he was young when that shit happened.
You laugh but my bf did that exact thing last week. Disappeared off to WA state without telling me where he was going (only saying that he was visiting a friend from college.) Guys really are that dumb.
I love mountain climbers like Alex honnold but that alpinist dude marc andre I think was a total tard with a death wish and if he hadn't died on his over the top alpining trip he would've died on the next one. Dude didn't value life taking those risks
If I were dumb enough to be doing what these morons do, I'd do exactly what these morons always do when they predictably get themselves into the shit:
I'd expect the rest of the planet to drop everything they're doing, spend fifteen million man-hours, and ten times the dollars, rushing to search for me, and get me out of it.
I fricking hate these homosexuals. I hate them so fricking much. This is not like hiring a lifeguard to pull out the occasional kid floating face-down in a swimming pool. Shit happens, and that's life. But this is different. morons who go out of their way to court obvious danger should be left to just fricking deal with their own self-created dumb shit.
I read about some homosexuals who found the skeleton of some long-dead homosexual who went exploring alone and died in a cave. Figured out his ID. He didn't tell nobody where he was going, and just got stuck in there, ran out of energy and died without troubling another soul. I can at least respect the homosexual for that. At least if you're going to do dumb shit, that's doing it right.
if your head is pointing towards the exit then just ask for a bunch of barbiturates, morphine and booze. if you don't die of overdose it'll turn you into jelly enough that you slide out
Die. Not just because I can't muster the courage to amputate a limb, but because I would genuinely rather die than live without an arm. Would feel like half a man.
Do all of you anons just posting "die" or "Tell someone where I'm going" not bother to actually read the thread and see that 100+ anons have all made the exact same "witty remark" as you.
These threads are more of an echo chamber than that canyon must have been.
theres nothing witty about saying "die" and the mass number of posters saying that is what makes it the popular opinion on here, almost none of those dudes think they're being original in saying that they're just towing the line. As dumb as it sounds repeated posts of same/similar statements is Cinemaphile's version of likes
theres like 3 possible options to say in this situation: cut your arm off or something similar to what he did, die, or dont end up in the situation to begin with.
this homie got extremely fricking lucky >After freeing himself, Ralston climbed out of the slot canyon in which he had been trapped, rappelled down a 65-foot (20 m) sheer wall, then hiked out of the canyon. He was 8 miles (13 km) from his vehicle, and had no phone. However, after 6 miles (9.7 km) of hiking, he encountered a family on vacation from the Netherlands; Eric and Monique Meijer and their son Andy, who gave him food and water and hurried to alert the authorities. Ralston had feared he would bleed to death; he had lost 40 pounds (18 kg), including 25% of his blood volume.[9] Rescuers searching for Ralston, alerted by his family that he was missing, had narrowed the search down to Canyonlands and he was picked up by a helicopter in a wide area of the canyon. He was rescued approximately four hours after amputating his arm.[3]
>Ralston later said that if he had amputated his arm earlier, he would have bled to death before being found, while if he had not done it he would have been found dead in the slot canyon days later.[10]
well once you start cutting you may as well see it through.
I wouldn’t be out there doing that in the first place.
Some white people shit.
Even afterwards he was out doing dumb shit that pissed his friends off, what happened to him was totally preventable
>but I did eat breakfast
fr fr i be seazoninz my chickenz instead
That's why I always laugh when idiots die doing dumb shit, like climbing Mount Everest like that's anything new. Fricking idiots GET WHAT THEY FRICKING DESERVE!!!
And their motivation is to be some kind of bigshot and have bragging rights for taking the risk, so don't come crying to me when you get the predictable consequences fricko. Like that Steve Irwin homosexual. Plays with wild animals then dies like a b***h. lol
>implying that laughing at morons for getting what they're all but asking for is 'edgy' or somehow not a valid take
Same. I prefer to climb ambulances then shake my ass at the top.
Your right.
dudes up on some mountain feeling good about himself while his wife and country are getting blacked.
right u would get shoot in the getto just for breathing close someone
Yeah our communities and daily lives are so safe that it takes this level of extreme activity for us to die for stupid reasons.
Get dubs
piss and shit myself
you dropped these
hmm
You should piss and shit on your arm to use as lube to free yourself.
He looks like a bogdanoff castoff.
have a gun cause if im ever in this situation
either blasting my arm out of the rock or myself cause im not staying 126 hours
mix my spit and precum, lube up the area, and pull my arm out. this dude was a moron.
Lift the rock and pull my arm out. Not sure why he didn't try that.
>go on extremely dangerous excursion
>get fricked up
This is my problem how?
die
Unironically, I think I’d probably die.
Not sure if I’d have it in me to start cutting my own arm off, and by the time I realized it was necessary and help wasn’t on the way, I doubt I’d have the strength to do it
Separately, my acting teacher in college showed us this movie because it’s solely focused on one character almost the entire time. Not something I really thought of till it was pointed out
>Separately, my acting teacher in college showed us this movie because it’s solely focused on one character almost the entire time. Not something I really thought of till it was pointed out
did he also show you buried 2010?
Nah, why do you recommend it? Seems very similar, so I might check it out regardless. Thanks for surfacing it!
Oh yeah I agree it would become more and more tempting and logical as time goes on. I just meant that by the time I realized (and was ready to act on) what needed to be done, it would already be too late.
Good insight, and I don’t doubt the human spirit and body might overwrite whatever thoughts I have now when it’s time for rubber to meet the road. But just sitting in my room thinking about it, I don’t have a high degree of confidence
You may find the strength when you're at your weakest unironically.
They are afraid of what they might find if their mettle was tested. The guy made a dumb decision, he got himself out of it, he struggled immensely and is clearly a man proven of his will to survive.
You're a pretentious homosexual.
I refuse to discuss this with you and will continue to troll the thread just to spite you.
Ayo dis Black person got btfo
You think you wouldn't cut off your arm now, but as you get more hungry and dehydrated cutting it off would start to seem more and more tempting.
>cutting it off would start to seem more and more tempting
mmm... bet it tastes like chicken
There was an episode of 'Mr. Robot' where none of the characters spoke at all except at the start and end of the episode and most of the audience didn't even notice.
>We don’t have to talk.”
>In Sunday’s “Method Not Allowed,” Mr. Robot very literally took Darlene’s (Carly Chaikin) declaration to Elliot (Rami Malek) in the opening moments; no other dialogue was uttered until the very end, with Vera (Elliott Villar) sneaking up on Krista (Gloria Reuben) and declaring, “It’s time we talk.
These threads always make me irrationally angry. I have a lot of respect for Aron, and his story is quite a captivating one. I usually make several posts defending him, citing the movie, his book, and his many media appearances, all from cynical jerks in these threads who just parrot the same old "I WOULDN'T BE THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE" or "SHOULDN'T HAVE GONE ALONE, moron!"
Similar things always wind up happening when I try to defend Christoper McCandless when his threads pop up.
>These threads always make me irrationally angry
Go climb a mountain or some shit whiteboi lmao
>be you
>die in driveby
>die from heart disease from eating fried chicken and honeysmacks all day long
dey whitepeepol dun be flyin dey ass to da moon n sheeit
bro he's not going to give you a handjob with his good arm, don't waste your time responding to trolls.
I just want to have an actual discussion about Aron's ordeal, because it is a fascinating one on both a logistical level & emotional one. Nobody ever wants to engage though, and 100+ anons always just spam the thread with their extremely funny, original jokes.
See
And I read his book too. There were several times when he almost got himself or his friends killed.
Aaron Ralston is a dangerous moron.
I have no idea why anyone would look up to him.
I'm well aware that Aron's carelessness, recklessness, and lack of proper precaution led into his situation. He's certainly not a "hero". He'd be the first to admit all of that.
His lack of planning did not literally cause an 800 pound boulder to tumble onto his arm. That was just a random fluke of the universe. Having then found himself in that situation, the man was able to use his wits, resourcefulness, and emotional gumption to survive for 6 days in that canyon with hardly any food, water, or hope of rescue, before finally doing something that most normal people find to be unthinkable, amputating his own arm with a dull pocket-knife. (Not to mention he then hiked 8 miles and rappelled down a cliff with one arm.) Sure, he brought the situation on himself in some ways, but I don't think that makes his survival any less remarkable. I think when people hear his story, one tends to imagine what they might do if they were in his scenario, and I just think it's too dismissive to just scoff and say, "Well I would never be in that situation and he's a moron."
Fine, but that moron really was in that situation, and he got himself out of there.
So what?
There's a huge number of people who have survived impossible situations. Here's a TV show with 58 similar stories:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shouldn%27t_Be_Alive
Aron isn't special. He's a braindead moron.
He's not any more special than all of the other people who got caught in a bad spot and found the fortitude to survive.
I'm well aware of that show, and have seen many episodes. I have a similar respect and admiration for a lot of those people as well. Off the top of my head, the guy who survived 76 days adrift at sea on a small life raft, the guy who had to ice-climb his way out of a crevasse after his climbing partner died from a fall.
>most normal people find to be unthinkable
nah that's normal shit in those situations. what are you gonna do, cry? you just gotta deal with it. also I don't know the story, but you imply he survived 6 days with his arm trapped? what did he do, squeeze water out of the boulder trapping him? he'd die of dehydration in no time, or exposure if it wasn't warm enough to dehydrate him. weird story.
He had about 150 mL of water in a bottle. On about day 3 he started drinking his own urine. But yes, he was very dehydrated, and lost about 40 pounds of bodyweight during his entrapment.
okay. I don't believe this story. he's lying.
His lack of planning meant no one came to save him when it did. He wouldn't have needed to do most of it if he planned, but not planning was the exciting part for him.
I can't imagine it because I wouldn't be in that situation because I'm not crazy. He's CRAZY. He's wired wrong. I'd bet anything he was loving it, it must have been thrilling for him, because the only reason you go out in the wilderness without plans like that is that you're HOPING something goes wrong and you have to "survivalist" your way out of it.
>to survive for 6 days
If he was half as hard to intelligent as you make him out to be, he would have known the arm wasn't recoverable and he needed to do that A LOT sooner.
I agree his survival was impressive now defend mccandless
Other than self blowjob with words on this topic, there is nothing to discuss you fricking homosexual, I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
This guy and that mccandles would've been vloggers and instagram tards in 2023 and actually would've saved their life and arm.
what is there to discuss?
Why are you invested in defending these morons? Seriously
This gay got lucky and got mega rich from his moronic story about being a dumbass and almost dying, he doesn't need your sympathy.
Kek, this has to be bait. No one is THAT moronic, right?
>Guy guys hiking and loses his arm
Oh right, of course a moron likes a moron. My bad.
I feel the same way about this guy as I do the Into the Wild guy. They have this pretentious "wanderlust" that drove them toward "adventure" but ended up being real world dangerous situations, which were only dangerous because there were about a thousand things they could have done before they were stuck to plan ahead for the worst case scenario. It's just stupid but it's excused because they were "adventurous souls" or whatever. McCandless didn't have to die and Ralston didn't have to lose his arm if they just planned ahead, and romanticizing what happened to them will just lead other people into the same situations.
>he should have just been... LE PREPARED!
Bro don't watch Black Hawk Down or you'll have a stroke
not bringing a spare helicopter to your helicopter ride isn't quite the same as going solo climbing and then not telling anyone
Separate topic, but the Battle of Mogadishu would've been much different if the US military didn't have stupid "rules of engagement".
>Helicopter has hellfire missiles it can't use
>Soldiers aren't allowed to pick up guns from dead adversaries.
>Military isn't allowed to use A10 Warthogs to clear out large swaths of enemy soldiers in an urban environment.
Etc.
why did he not have a phone with him to call for rescue??????????????????????????????????????????????????
Do yourself a favour and stop giving a shit.
is it your duty to defend unprepared rich morons or something
isn't it widely considered moronic to go on dangerous mountain hikes without telling anyone that you're going? I thought that was part of outdoorgay 101
Yes it is, your either suicidal, which might be a bit extreme, but definitely a touch of the tard
See now here I am over an hour later, got caught up in this thread doing exactly what I said I wasn't going to do in
I've gotta go, gents. It's been fun. See you next 127 Hours thread!
If anyone is genuinely interested to know more about Aron's ordeal, and there is a lot of fascinating, specific information about it that may sway your opinion about him, I'd recommend his book, seen here
Or you could check out this 60 Minutes special about him where he actually revisits the exact spot 1 year later and recounts his ordeal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAEBL3nnIQ
Or at the very least, the excerpt about the amputation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUq_61ps7R0
To say nothing of the fantastically well edited film 127 Hours, which is a technical marvel in that for a film about one guy stuck in one location, the film is very slick and has a lot of kinetic energy.
Cheers, gentlemen!
Adrenaline junkie sports like this, free climbing, and spelunking are surrogate activities that could just as easily be accomplished in a gym. It's the needlessly tempting Fate part that's irksome, a kind of blasphemy indulged by YOLO (no Gods no masters no afterlife) swag types. When they inevitably frick up, someone has to clean up the splatter or waste resources trying to find these thrill junkie yahoos in a bad situation entirely of their own design.
what a stupid post. obviously the DANGER is what people are after when they do these things. so you couldn't do them, in the gym. unless you were doing some really stupid shit in your gym.
I with you. The real answer however is devilishly simple: don’t be James Franco.
I can't speak for one arm wonder but Christopher mccandless was an idiot to any person who is a regular outdoorsman. It's poetic that he spent his last moments in a school bus the one piece of society in the wild because he was never cut out for living off the land
Wasted time and resources by the professionals that have to go out looking for these morons for days before ultimately having to give up. Just do everyone a favor and just have a nice day now and save us all some tax money.
Someone post it
Cry, piss myself a little, and die. Seriously I don't think I'd have the willpower to cut through my nerve like that
After carefully assessing the realities of my surroundings, I would use my position and leverage to take sexual advantage of college students.
I don't go outside
I watched this movie and was sure at any moment his step brother was gonna come up behind him and start fricking.
Wouldn't be there in the first place because I'm not a dumb frick
Cut my arm off, what else there is to do? Besides, this movie is the reason why I invested in satellite phone and I always travel with a hunting knife or hand axe. If I have to cut a part of myself off I better do it with the proper tools.
He's an actual moron. You should read his book. He had a deathwish.
>Go hiking with someone
>Tell someone your exact plans
>Bring a satellite phone and enough food/water for a few days
He ignored ALL of the rules, and still expects people to feel sympathy for him??
you think he is looking for handouts or something?
He literally is.
He goes on speaking tours to get money. He talks at "corporate seminars" and other places where people who have never climbed a hill work.
All real mountaineers think he's a dangerous loser and stay far away from him.
So basically he's Christopher McCandless but he didn't die and is good at self-promotion.
Well to be fair he's a cripple now. Dude's got one arm. Think of how difficult that would make even a desk job to be missing one arm..
He's dumb but I get why he tried to turn his stupidity into a career. It's a cautionary tale, like those reformed drug addicts who go talk at schools. Being a walking cautuonary tale is arguably the best use of his life now that he's handicapped..
A 2003-era satellite phone would not have would not have worked when you're in a remote crevice 40 feet below ground.
Yes, but telling SOMEONE about his plans and route WOULD HAVE.
I've climbed 14ers.
I've hiked in canyons solo.
I always tell people about my plans, and always bring adequate gear.
I've never had a problem because I'm not a moron.
I think you should be retested.
Kek
Still got both my arms Aron. Can you clap for me??
Literally said I go solo hiking/climbing frequently.
I still always tell someone my plans, and have a satellite phone on me just in case.
one armed people clap by slapping their thighs.
ok, what if you told someone everything, but you fell into a canyon, a rock fell onto your arm, and your gear was crushed/inaccessible, all you have is a knife.
If you ever have been hiking alone you can think of a hundred things that can still go wrong even after everything in your end is tidy.
>If I don't call/text you by midnight, please call the park authorities and tell them that I'm missing.
>Give them this route, it's where I'm going. It's an out-and-back trail. Here's the map.
That's literally it.
Wait about 24-hours to be rescued.
Oh, and I would've had a good knife, extra water, and enough food for an extra day.
>fell off the trail by over 100ft
>acoustic shadow
>waterfall nearby masks even the loudest cry
>arm still pinned
Now what would you do, become a 411 case or make millions telling people *husky voice* "le wolf will chew off its own leg to survive"
Kek
Exactly.
So Aron isn't special.
He's a dumb shithead. He doesn't deserve to go on talks and get paid $25,000 per speaking appearance.
There's not much left to discuss.
Like this guy said,
if you follow basic rules, you'll go your whole life without losing any limbs.
>if you follow basic rules, you'll go your whole life without losing any limbs.
no, misfortune happens all the time.
what a soibug view
>just follow the rules and everything will turn out well
>no, misfortune happens all the time.
Yeah, but if you plan correctly, you can get out of it without some stupid ordeal.
Ya know what, just stay inside and never hike or climb and hills/mountains. I think that would be the best bet for someone with your level of comprehension.
You are the one being evasive about a simple hypothetical.
>misfortune
unprepared cope
How many times do you actually use your gear?
out of 10 pieces of equipment, you can expect at least 1 to fail and require a spare.
I think many of the I Shouldn't Be Alive People could probably convert their stories into captivating motivational speaking engagements. I'm not sure what you're trying to say, or why you're singling out Aron's story. Yes, there are other survival stories in the world, so he's not super special in that regard. His is perhaps a bit more grisly and traumatic than most, I suppose.
It absolutely hurt. The part that was numb was the part that was pinned between the rock and the wall. He obviously had to his arm off in the area where it was still exposed, which still obviously had feeling in it (after he had to use torque to break both of the bones in his arm, no less.) He described the amputation as being very painful, with the worst part being cutting the nerve, which he likened to sticking his entire arm into a vat of liquid metal.
>or why you're singling out Aron's story.
Because Aron is the homosexual who made a career out of it.
He just said if the others were a little more aspirational they could too
Except those people aren't self-centered douchebags (like Aron). They're humbled by the experience for the most part, and are just happy to be alive.
Only narcissistic douchebags write books about it and go on speaking tours and other such bullshit.
And you think Aron is the only survival-story person to make a fortune from their ordeal?
Check out Joe Simpson of 'Touching the Void', Steve Callahand of 'Adrift', Warren MacDonald of 'A Test of Will', Beck Weathers from "Everest"... need I go on?
Every single one of these guys brought their ordeal upon themselves in one way or another.
Yes, and they're all douchebags. But this thread is about that homosexual Aron.
I brought that up is because
is defending Aron for some bizarre reason. They are all opportunistic douchebags who don't deserve having a career based on their dumbassairy.
Cry more. I will remained INSPIRED and EMOTIONALLY MOVED.
KEK!
>Be Aron Ralston, have your own book
>James Franco cucks him and gets his picture on Aron's book
That almost makes this all worth it, lmfao
Choose your fighter!
How does he jerk off with the hook hand?
>vat of liquid metal
Oh great comparison everyone knows what that feels like
No, it's a dumb hypothetical.
>I would chop my arm off too
>Then I would build a helicopter out of nearby tree branches, and fly to safety.
Is getting stuck while isolated really comparable to building a helicopter out of a nearby tree?
Of course mate, it's a hypothetical.
If I was Aron Ralston, I would've done the same thing (chop me arm off), except on day 2 or 3, not like a moron on day 6.
Oh and I never would've gotten stuck for that long because I would've told several people my route.
In all likelihood I would've gone with friends. Aron didn't HAVE any friends because they all stopped talking to him after he almost got them all killed in an avalanche a few years prior.
Aron was (and is) a dangerous lunatic.
No wonder he has no friends and his wife divorced him.
Agreed.
>Aron didn't HAVE any friends because they all stopped talking to him after he almost got them all killed in an avalanche a few years prior.
>Aron was (and is) a dangerous lunatic.
Interested in reading about this moron for the first time in my life, please link me to that shit so that I may laugh.
Rent his book from your local library if you want to read it. It's a shitty book, and it details his reckless/moronic ways.
Oh it's funny too; he never had a girlfriend at this time (because he was such a weirdo/loser) so the book talks about his relationship with his sister because the publisher thought the book needed "at least one female." Even the publishers thought he was a weirdo.
Also he (of course) edited his own Wikipedia page to include details like he was "active in intramural sports".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston
you sound like a weirdo and possibly a samegay
I would chop my arm off, and then I wouldn't tell anyone about it beyond the emergency personel, because it would be an extremely embarrasing and shameful situation. Anyone who goes around bragging about literally being moronic is probably bot that and a psychopath. Idolizing this guy is mental illness.
You won't get it.
His arm was already fricked why not just cut it off after the first day?
your mother did not cut your head off.
You sound Indian. Are you Indian?
No. You must have shit in your ears.
Yes? You got problem with that?
No wonder it's smelly in here
I'd let myself die. It's literally what I'm currently doing in life anyway.
>Marries girl in 2009
>She divorces him within 3 years
Lmfao
tell my friends I am going hiking and where
Is there even a single survival story like this that doesn't start with the idiot not telling anyone where they're going before they trap themselves
Well no, because then it wouldn't end up being a notable survival story, would it?
>tell spouse/sibling/parent/friend where I'm going just in case, and when I'll be back
>get stuck somewhere
>Rescued 1 day after I was supposed to return because people knew where to look, and I stayed put
Isn't a very interesting story.
How feasible would it be to have a cyanide capsule installed in one of your teeth for an emergency like this?
I would punch the rock and break myself free, but it would probably take all night.
Remove my lower ribs and Suck my own dick
In real life it wouldn’t even have hurt because his arm would have been numb from lack of blood flow. But if he admitted that it didn’t hurt it wouldn’t make as good if a story.
What would you do?
Aron Ralston isn't a b***h, he would've cut his legs off and used them as extra handles to make his way out of the cave.
>Haha, John Jones couldn't even survive getting trapped, what a L-O-S-E-R!
I have a panic attack just THINKING about being in a cave like that. The only way the earth is getting me inside of it is a sinkhole opening under my apartment building.
Euthanize in place.
I would ask people to stuff a bunch of dynamite behind me and blow up the rocks and hope for the best.
Why didn't they try to chip him out? Do spelunking autists really care that much about muh cave integrity?
This had to be one of the worst deaths imaginable.
The photo at the bottom is a different guy
Ted's Caving Page, a very good read
>cut off arm
>regrow it over the next month
Fellow humans, how do I delete a post?
i called these bonehead group of losers the nutty putty nutbags
>URGH AAAGH MY TUM TUM THOSE BERRIES WERE ICKY YU KY AAAGH MOMMMY I WANT TO BE A ROCH YUPPY gay NOW PLEASE *shits self to death*
>OWIE OWIE OWIE MY ARMY WARMY WHY DIDNT I BRING A PHONE OR TELL SOMEONE OR BRING A KNIFE OR LIFT MORE AAAAA MY HECKIN HANDARINOOOOO
>NO I won't follow the map in this 2 in by 1 in cave system. I NEED to see what these new copy paste rocks in total darkness look like! no NO NOOO you will NOT break my legs! I NEED those to walk home to my wIfe and child after I crawl out of mother earth's ass crack here. Hope they enjoy my insurance payout!
I'd die, but first I'd think 'damn maybe I should've just appreciated nature by hiking or mountain climbing like a normal person and not jumping into a fricking canyon like a moron.'
Honestly I thought that I could probably cut my own arm off until I read his account. He had to literally break his arm BEFORE he could cut it off. Cutting is one thing but I don't think I could snap my own bones.
Take the emergency canola oil out of my pack, grease myself up, and slide right out, what else?
If you truly believe you are going to die, you're able to do a lot of things. Though how much time it takes one to get to that realization might be outpaced by dehydration.
Im not sure. But i have forced myself into doing horrible shit that i really didnt want to do. I might be able to pull it off, who knows.
>Are you stuck?
Yes, please help me
>Are you really stuck?
Yes, I already told please why won't you help me?
>Are you really, really stuck?
Please, at least send for help if you aren't going to help me
>*Unzips pants, starts peeing
Ack, why are you doing this, it smells awful. You must eat a lot of asparagus
>That's what you get for cupping Charlyne's buttocks. Tell Seth he's next on the list
How the frick was he able to make it through the bone?
Iirc correctly his arm was pinned and immobile so he just torqued it and snapped it
Drink your milk anon. He had the bone density of a 70 year old woman
He broke the bones. He realized that his arm was pinned tightly enough that if he bent his arm the wrong way with enough force, he could snap his radius and ulna. The knife was too dull to cut through them otherwise.
pull my arm as hard as i can the bones will break and crackle and my skin and also flesh will be ripped off id keep an arm but if its stuck TOO tight or i dont have enough momentum to pull it out ill sever it.
Not dicking around outside in the middle of nowhere
My garden is just fine thank you
Start sooner, the limb was a write off anyways. Meanwhile you're losing strength, water, time.
>has metal rock climbing shit right?
>rock is not adamantium
>chip away rock instead of arm
>if a pack of primitive motherfrickers can build pyramids that way, then this fricker can handle one little rock
>dumbass
Exactly what he did. Which is why he's still alive. It also made him famous and successful, because people are attracted to the idea of a how far a human can push themselves to live. The dude snapped his own arm and cut through the entire thing with a shitty Walmart tier knife. Pretty incredible he even survived the shock and blood loss mixed with the malnourishment and dehydration
>Pretty incredible he even survived the shock and blood loss mixed with the malnourishment and dehydration
Also the sepsis. He was lucky that he was young when that shit happened.
I would tell someone where I was going and when I would be back for starters
You laugh but my bf did that exact thing last week. Disappeared off to WA state without telling me where he was going (only saying that he was visiting a friend from college.) Guys really are that dumb.
I always carry a sheet of loose leaf paper just in case this happens to me. Paper beats rock.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this guy at a Phish concert before.
how do you respond to the boulder without sounding mad?
I love mountain climbers like Alex honnold but that alpinist dude marc andre I think was a total tard with a death wish and if he hadn't died on his over the top alpining trip he would've died on the next one. Dude didn't value life taking those risks
die
have a wank, see what happens. probably die.
If I were dumb enough to be doing what these morons do, I'd do exactly what these morons always do when they predictably get themselves into the shit:
I'd expect the rest of the planet to drop everything they're doing, spend fifteen million man-hours, and ten times the dollars, rushing to search for me, and get me out of it.
I fricking hate these homosexuals. I hate them so fricking much. This is not like hiring a lifeguard to pull out the occasional kid floating face-down in a swimming pool. Shit happens, and that's life. But this is different. morons who go out of their way to court obvious danger should be left to just fricking deal with their own self-created dumb shit.
I read about some homosexuals who found the skeleton of some long-dead homosexual who went exploring alone and died in a cave. Figured out his ID. He didn't tell nobody where he was going, and just got stuck in there, ran out of energy and died without troubling another soul. I can at least respect the homosexual for that. At least if you're going to do dumb shit, that's doing it right.
Amen brother.
nothing to argue with anon
Realistically speaking, what would you do in this situation?
if your head is pointing towards the exit then just ask for a bunch of barbiturates, morphine and booze. if you don't die of overdose it'll turn you into jelly enough that you slide out
Leave him there to die like the pathetic homosexual he is.
That looks like a 50 lb rock
I'd just lift it
Not go hiking alone, bring a small power bank for any devices that may lose battery/power. It's that easy, not being a fricking dumbass helps too.
>going hiking alone
>going without telling anyone
>going without giving someone a location
>going without letting someone know where you'll be
I mean, cool he survived, but if he didn't he'd just be another moron like all the other climbers
Die. Not just because I can't muster the courage to amputate a limb, but because I would genuinely rather die than live without an arm. Would feel like half a man.
Do all of you anons just posting "die" or "Tell someone where I'm going" not bother to actually read the thread and see that 100+ anons have all made the exact same "witty remark" as you.
These threads are more of an echo chamber than that canyon must have been.
theres nothing witty about saying "die" and the mass number of posters saying that is what makes it the popular opinion on here, almost none of those dudes think they're being original in saying that they're just towing the line. As dumb as it sounds repeated posts of same/similar statements is Cinemaphile's version of likes
WHAT THE FRICK DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY THEN
I WOULDN'T HAVE TO COURAGE TO CUT OFF MY ARM SO I WOULD JUST DIE
IT'S NOT A FRICKING JOKE
theres like 3 possible options to say in this situation: cut your arm off or something similar to what he did, die, or dont end up in the situation to begin with.
this homie got extremely fricking lucky
>After freeing himself, Ralston climbed out of the slot canyon in which he had been trapped, rappelled down a 65-foot (20 m) sheer wall, then hiked out of the canyon. He was 8 miles (13 km) from his vehicle, and had no phone. However, after 6 miles (9.7 km) of hiking, he encountered a family on vacation from the Netherlands; Eric and Monique Meijer and their son Andy, who gave him food and water and hurried to alert the authorities. Ralston had feared he would bleed to death; he had lost 40 pounds (18 kg), including 25% of his blood volume.[9] Rescuers searching for Ralston, alerted by his family that he was missing, had narrowed the search down to Canyonlands and he was picked up by a helicopter in a wide area of the canyon. He was rescued approximately four hours after amputating his arm.[3]
>Ralston later said that if he had amputated his arm earlier, he would have bled to death before being found, while if he had not done it he would have been found dead in the slot canyon days later.[10]
Realistically speaking why do you moronic fricks post the same shit over and over and over again?