Aron Ralston Libros

Reader im preisgünstigen Klassensatz zu einer Mindestbestellmenge von 10 Exemplaren Aron Ralston lebt für den Kick des Abenteuers. Auf einer Klettertour in Utah durchleidet er 127 Stunden der Angst. Beim Durchklettern einer engen Schlucht löst sich ein Felsblock, der seinen Arm einklemmt. In dieser Lage verharrt er ohne Aussicht auf Hilfe. Das Wasser wird knapp und Aron wird klar, dass er nur mit dem Leben davonkommt, wenn er den eingekeilten Körperteil abtrennt.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will motivate students to read. 127 Hours is the extraordinary true story of Aron Ralston who, after a canyoneering accident in Utah, was forced to amputate his own arm to survive

One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and toughest peaks. He'd earned this weekend vacation, and though he met two charming women along the way, by early afternoon he finally found himself in his element: alone, with just the beauty of the natural world all around him. It was 2:41 P.M. Eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose. Before he could get out of the way, the falling stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston. With scant water and little food, no jacket for the painfully cold nights, and the terrible knowledge that he'd told no one where he was headed, he found himself facing a lingering death -- trapped by an 800-pound boulder 100 feet down in the bottom of a canyon. As he eliminated his escape options one by one through the days, Aron faced the full horror of his predicament: By the time any possible search and rescue effort would begin, he'd most probably have died of dehydration, if a flash flood didn't drown him before that. What does one do in the face of almost certain death? Using the video camera from his pack, Aron began recording his grateful good-byes to his family and friends all over the country, thinking back over a life filled with adventure, and documenting a last will and testament with the hope that someone would find it. (For their part, his family and friends had instigated a major search for Aron, the amazing details of which are also documented here for the first time.) The knowledge of their love kept Aron Ralston alive, until a divine inspiration on Thursday morning solved the riddle of the boulder. Aron then committed the most extreme act imaginable to save himself. Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- a brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life -- will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories.

THE “EXTRAORDINARY” (Booklist) #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER—THE “HARROWING” (The Washington Post) SURVIVOR’S MEMOIR YOU WILL NEVER FORGET Aron Ralston, an experienced twenty-seven-year-old outdoorsman, was on a day’s solitary hike through a remote and narrow Utah canyon when he dislodged an eight-hundred- pound boulder that crushed his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. Emerging from the searing pain, Aron found himself completely stuck. No one knew where he was; no one was coming to rescue him. With scant water and food, and a cheap pocketknife his only tool, he eliminated his options one by one. On the fifth night, wracked by delirium and uncontrollable shivers, Aron scratched his epitaph into the rock wall, certain he would not see daylight. Yet with the new morning came an epiphany: if he could use the rock’s vise-like hold to break his arm bones, his blunted pocketknife could serve as a surgeon’s blade. . . .

Aron Ralston lebt für den Kick des Abenteuers. Auf einer Klettertour in Utah durchleidet er 127 Stunden der Angst. Beim Durchklettern einer engen Schlucht löst sich ein Felsblock, der seinen Arm einklemmt. In dieser Lage verharrt er ohne Aussicht auf Hilfe. Das Wasser wird knapp und Aron wird klar, dass er nur mit dem Leben davonkommt, wenn er den eingekeilten Körperteil abtrennt.

Aron Ralston, hlavní hrdina a autor v jedné osobě – nadšený horolezec, cyklista, plavec a obdivovatel divoké přírody –, se vydává na snadnou výpravu do utažských kaňonů, kde ho při rutinním sestupu skalní průrvou uvězní balvan, který mu přišpendlí ruku ke stěně. Prakticky bez naděje na záchranu probírá různé možnosti, jak se dostat z nečekané pasti, a přitom se neúprosně blíží k rozhodující volbě. Během dlouhých hodin úporného boje o přežití vzpomíná na mládí, rodiče, přátele a především výpravy do divočiny, která se mu stala osudem. Poutavě popisuje své dávné setkání s medvědem i to, jak se vzdal výhodného místa, aby se mohl plně věnovat svým milovaným horám, vrací se ke klíčovým zážitkům a přemýšlí, kam ho zavedly.

Eingeklemmt in einem entlegenen Wüsten-Canyon verbringt der amerikanische Solobergsteiger Ralston 5 Tage und Nächte, bevor er sich zur Amputation seiner rechten Hand entscheidet.

Hiking into the remote Utah canyonlands, Aron Ralston felt perfectly at home. Then, at 2:41 p.m., eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, an eight-hundred-pound boulder tumbled loose, pinning Aron's right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. Through six days, with scant water, food, or warm clothing, and the knowledge that no one knew where he was, Aron eliminated his escape options one by one. Then a moment of stark clarity helped him to solve the riddle of the boulder, and commit one of the most extreme and desperate acts imaginable.