A HERO who cut off his own arm and was made famous by James Franco in '127 Hours' has been locked up on assault charges. Aron Ralston, the famous hiker whose survival story was portrayed by James ...

Aron Ralston (October 27, 1975) is an American climber, skier, and amputee. Ralston became famous in 2003 after becoming pinned by a boulder in a slot canyon south of Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

As an avid climber and adventurer, Aron Ralston often imagined countless different scenarios of how he’d save himself if something went wrong. But he never thought of the one that would end up making ...

For Aron Ralston, every passing hour was a fight for survival. The climber was pinned to the canyon wall by a 360-kilogramme boulder. No one knew about his stay, so he couldn't count on help. If he ...

Two boulders changed his life forever. In 2003, Aron Ralston was hiking through canyons in southern Utah when while descending a slot-canyon a boulder dislodged, crushing his arm leaving him trapped ...