Ocean11 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 Interesting article here about a young climber who had some issues with his right arm. Get the whole story here; http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st...er_amputation_7 "On the fourth day, a day after his first attempt to cut his arm, Ralston went through the motions of applying a tourniquet, laid out bike shorts to absorb the blood and got his gear ready for a quick getaway. He worked out how to get through the bone with his "multi-tool"-type knife, made duller by futile attempts to chip away at the rock. "Basically, I got my surgical table ready," he said. On the fifth day, he summoned up all his technique and nerve: "I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour," he said." I think rather than cutting the thing off, I'd rather try and pull it out, however much got left behind. I wonder what the mechanics of that would be... Link to post Share on other sites
Markie 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 I saw that on the news a few days ago and was greatly impressed. The guy has an incredible will to live! Link to post Share on other sites
powwwers 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 What? you`ve never had to chew your arm off??? done it heapa o`times! Link to post Share on other sites
jared 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 after a big night on the town and waking up next to a girl so ugly that ...... Link to post Share on other sites
mogski 0 Posted May 9, 2003 Share Posted May 9, 2003 There seems to be alot of people cutting things off themselves these days. I noticed there was a guy in South Africa who walked into supermarket, went straight to the meat section started up the band saw and cut his own head off. This too was on Yahoo. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 Yeah this story was huge news in the States on Tuesday. Seems his biggest mistake was going on a solo canyoning mission without leaving a intention list with anyone. No one knew where he was. as for yanking the arm Ocean it was trapped under a 400+ kg boulder that wasnt going to budge, I would guess his shoulder or elbow would dislocate first and then he would be in an even bigger world of.....poo than what he was already in Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 Crazy stuff. Saw it on CNN too. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 That was one crazy stroy and hell make money from it too? Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 Saw it on the news last night as well. He says he's ready for his next adventure. I just hope he takes someone with him next time. Link to post Share on other sites
Fattwins 0 Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 Ive been thinking and damm how did he not pass out from the pain. It would kill slowly cutting off an arm wouldnt it? Link to post Share on other sites
Markie 0 Posted May 10, 2003 Share Posted May 10, 2003 I was thinking the same thing, Fattwins. My guess was that since part of his arm was already being crushed and under great pressure for a long long time, maybe it was quite numb by the time he did IT. Still, even if that is true, it doesn't take anything away from his remarkable feat to keep himself alive. Link to post Share on other sites
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