I did some Googling and found some interesting pics:
Here is a picture he took of himself. He wanted to leave record of what happened for his family
Here's the cover of his audiobook. Note the prosthesis, should come in handy for future climbs:
Posted on 09/21/2005 1:04:06 AM PDT by Gamecock
Production geek ping!
This better describes the tree, perhaps
A real man would amputate his own arm. Girly men shouldn't be out in the woods, IMHO.
From the BBC:
Trapped climber amputates own arm
A US rock climber used a penknife to amputate his own arm and escape to safety after a boulder pinned him down for five days in a remote part of the western state of Utah.
Aron Ralston, 27, and described as an experienced outdoorsman, was found by climbers on Thursday and airlifted to hospital.
Officials said that his condition was serious but that he would fully recover.
He had been hiking in Blue John Canyon near the Canyonlands National Park in Utah when his right arm was trapped by a boulder which came loose as he attempted to use it as a handhold.
On Tuesday his water ran out, and on Thursday he made the decision to sever his arm just below his elbow, applying a tourniquet and administering basic first aid before abseiling off a 70-foot (21m) ledge and beginning the hike back to his vehicle.
He was taken to hospital by a rescue helicopter - friends had alerted the emergency services when he failed to turn up for work.
At hospital, a calm Mr Ralston explained to stunned staff what had happened, adding that he had lost a lot of blood.
'Love of outdoors'
Calling Mr Ralston a "rare hero", Sergeant Mitch Vetere, of Emery County Sheriff's Office, said he was amazed by the climber's good condition considering the circumstances.
He also said that Mr Ralston had made the right decision to free himself, as the county's rescue teams might never have spotted him.
"Our rescue team said that they never would have seen him from under that boulder," he told the BBC.
"The only way we would have seen him is if we had stumbled into him."
Mr Ralston's mother said that her son, an experienced climber, survived because he was in peak physical and mental condition.
"He was able to rationally consider alternatives relative to his situation," she told the Associated Press news agency.
"His spirits are high and he anxiously looks forward to returning to his love of the outdoors."
Maybe they did...
No evidence left to ever know...
You give a whole new twist on a tree hugger.
If an artist screams in the woods for help when nobody is around, does he make any noise?
Died for his art?
LOL!
One of those newsy shows did an hour specia on that guy & how he got out. Stoned Phillips or someone like that. It was quite interesting.
Now that's what I call peotic justice.
I did some Googling and found some interesting pics:
Here is a picture he took of himself. He wanted to leave record of what happened for his family
Here's the cover of his audiobook. Note the prosthesis, should come in handy for future climbs:
Alternatively, his murderer placed the key just out of reach to torment him as he died. The torment was retribution for all the crummy art the artist produced
A glimpse of Cindy Sheehan's future, at least if she keeps hassling Hillary.
I say life.
Ping.
Perhaps "scenic art" wasn't his only talent. Perhaps he was also a mime.
"If a tree falls on a mime in the forest,
and there's no one around to hear him,
Does the mime make a sound?"
So that suicides will be investigated. Otherwise you would have people reporting "suicides" and the police would not even be required to visit the scene of the crime. Lots of potential for abuse there.
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