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1) 127 hours
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Everest Entertainment, LLC, Pathe Productions Limited and Dune Entertainment lll LLC
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
The powerfully uplifting true story of one man's struggle to survive against mountainous odds. Aron Ralston has a passion for all things outdoors. But when a falling boulder traps him in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker's adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends as well as his own courage and ingenuity to turn...
3) The wall
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Description
From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The ReckoningOn the vast, sunlit walls of the world's greatest monolith, two veteran climbers unwittingly ascend into a vertical underworld. In a place where obsession kills, they quickly fall prey to past loves, old demons, and ghostly revenge. Hugh and Lewis were Yosemite legends. El Capitan was their holy grail, and their destiny seemed written on its big walls. Here they met the women who married,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2004.
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When her commitment-phobic roommate and friend, Graham, suffers multiple injuries from a rock-climbing accident, ER nurse Claire Harper stays home to care for him and starts to fall for this man whose views on life and love are very different from her own.
"The proposition is simple: if ER nurse Claire Harper and her roommate, firefighter Graham Scott, are still single by the time they're forty, they'll take the proverbial plunge together...as friends...