Новинки Арона Ральстона

Суббота, 26 апреля 2003 года, 14 часов 41 минута. В восьми милях от своего грузовика, находясь в глубокой и узкой расщелине каньона Блю-Джон, альпинист Арон Ралстон спускался с клинообразного валуна, когда камень внезапно начал шататься. Прежде чем Арон смог отскочить в сторону, падающий камень прижал его правую руку и запястье к стене каньона. Так для Арона…

Впервые на русском - удивительный международный бестселлер, основанный на реальной драме выживания, основа номинированного на шесть "Оскаров" нового фильма Дэнни Бойла - прославленного постановщика таких хитов, как "На игле", "Пляж", "Миллионер из трущоб" (восемь премий "Оскар" 2009 г.); главную роль исполнил Джеймс Франко. Арон Ральстон трудился инженером в…

This book is based on the real events from the life of the author. He was able to overcome everything and survive. People rarely get such ordeals. Ralph worked as an engineer, but he was keen on extreme sports. Later he quit his job in order to conquer all the mountains in Colorado. Once he went alone on one of such trips without telling anyone. Ralph also had communication problems, as the mobile network often does not work in the mountainous region. This fact did not bother the man. He decided to continue the adventure. The alpinist had only a small backpack with groceries for one day and a penknife. He did not have any other means of survival. Ralph did not even suspect that soon he would have to fight for his own life.

Published in 2004, the book predominantly recounts Ralston's experience being trapped in Blue John Canyon in the Utah desert and how he was forced to amputate his own right arm with a dull multi-tool in order to free himself after his arm became trapped by a boulder.[2] Inc. magazine named Ralston's account one of seven "great entrepreneurship books that have nothing to do with business."[3]

The book also describes Ralston's childhood, how he took up outdoor activities after moving to Colorado from Indiana, how he came to be an obsessive outdoorsman and how he left his engineering career at Intel in Arizona to take up outdoor activities as much as possible.

The book goes back and forth, in alternating chapters, between Ralston's past experiences and his entrapment in the slot canyon, and the efforts of his mother to find him. Included in some editions are pictures of his days in the canyon,[1] various photos from the past excursions he speaks of in the book, a glossary of mountaineering jargon, and maps of Blue John Canyon and the proximity of the canyon in central-eastern Utah.