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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal…”
You may already have heard about Aron Ralston’s story, or seen the movie, 127 Hours. For those that haven’t, in a nutshell, here’s what happened.
One fine day in May 2003, Aron set off on what he expected would be an enjoyable hike through the mountains in Utah. How wrong he was. Very quickly, the trip turned into his, and indeed anyone’s, worst nightmare. Following an accident, his arm became trapped behind an 800-pound boulder. He was stuck. Badly hurt. And in the middle of nowhere. Worse still, nobody knew he had gone on the trip – he had committed the mortal sin in mountaineering terms of not telling anyone where he was going – and he had no means of communication, so rescue was unlikely.
