CMU grad.
SD
Unbelievable
Ralston, a former engineer for Intel who lives in Aspen, Colorado, had set off for a one-day trip on Saturday, April 26 hiking and rock climbing in Canyonlands National Park. He was trying to get on top of a rock and jammed his feet and hands into crevices to get a better hold. Just then the rock shifted, pinning his arm.
Ralston was stuck for five days and ran out of water after three. On Thursday he used a pocketknife to cut off his right arm below the elbow, then rappelled down a rock wall and hiked exhausted and dehydrated until he ran into some hikers who flagged down a rescue helicopter 60 miles (100 km) south of Green River, Utah.
Did you know him there?