The pulley system he rigged to try and budge the boulder. The four tourniquets of climbing rope with which he bound his biceps, then the staggering reports of blood loss after crude surgery with a ...

ASPEN, Colo. — His right arm was pinned beneath an 800-pound boulder. His water bottle was empty. It did not seem likely that a rescue crew could ever spot him in the narrow slit of Blue John Canyon, ...

Humans are astonishingly resilient when pushed to the edge — just ask Aron Ralston. After a harrowing canyoneering mishap left him isolated in the wilderness for five days — with an enormous boulder ...

Durango, Colo. — A steel gray cloud booms down thunder and snow flurries over Engineer Mountain in southwestern Colorado. As quick as a lightning flash, an easy day hike on this 13,000-foot peak turns ...

The folklore of the American West brims with tall tales of superhuman strength and heroism. So the extraordinary story of mountaineer Aron Ralston’s escape from a Utah canyon last week almost makes ...

When the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad train pulled into Cascade station last Friday morning, one passenger got off.Laden with skis, gear and supplies for the next five days, Aron Ralston ...

GRAND JUNCTION - After five days trapped in a remote desert ravine in Utah's Canyonlands, his right hand pinned beneath an 800-pound boulder, Aron Ralston had a revelation that saved his life at the ...

ASPEN – As he sawed through the final strands of his own tissue and skin with a dull blade, Aron Ralston was overcome with emotion, awash in a wave of euphoria unlike anything he’d felt ...

Aron Ralston, a climber who cut off his arm to free himself from a huge boulder, is improving and will have surgery Monday to close his wound. Surgeons may have to shorten the bone so Ralston will be ...