page_title: Aron Ralston
section_title: Public speaking
hierarchical_section_title: Aron Ralston / After the accident / Public speaking
caption_attribution_description: Aron Ralston at the premiere of 127 Hours, Toronto Film Festival 2010.
context_page_description: Aron Lee Ralston is an American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer and motivational speaker known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off his own arm.
  On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah, he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist to the side of the canyon wall. After five days he was able to amputate his arm with a dull pocketknife, make his way through the rest of the canyon, rappel down a 65-foot drop, and hike 7 miles to safety.
  The incident is documented in Ralston's autobiography Between a Rock and a Hard Place and is the subject of the 2010 film 127 Hours where he is portrayed by James Franco.
  After the accident he continued mountaineering and became the first person to ascend all of Colorado's fourteeners solo in winter.
context_section_description: As a corporate speaker, Ralston receives an honorarium of about $25,000 per domestic speaking appearance, and up to $37,000 for international speeches. On May 4, 2007, Ralston appeared at the Swiss Economic Forum and gave a speech about "how he did not lose his hand, but gained his life back."
caption: Ralston at the Toronto premiere of 127 Hours
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