![]() In 2010 a film called “127 hours” was made of his experience, most of which was spent in the bottom of a small canyon with a rock crushing his arm.Īron Ralston was a keen hiker and knew Wayne canyon in Utah well, so when he went out one day he was wildly over-confident and didn’t pack any were near enough supplies in the case of an emergency.Īfter falling down a narrow slot canyon he ended up at the bottom with a large boulder squashing his arm. People need books like this.This guy is one of the most well know people to have come out of a survival situation, mostly because he became famous from cutting off his own arm. ![]() I am giving this five stars not really because it was amazing but because I enjoyed it from start to finish and felt extremely happy at the end. I liked it even better than Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Surviva and will try Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. If you are just a teeny bit in the mood for a survival story - pick this. The story is well written, and there is humor and hope. Maybe he showed a bit too much engagement I prefer neutral narrators but heck he never wrecked the story, and I was completely glued to it once I had stated it. The narration was OK, but the pronunciation of Norwegian names kind of threw me off at times. I listened to the audiobook narrated by Stuart Langton. This book takes place in northern Norway, near Tromsö and the Bardufoss Airstation and Kilpisärvi Lake. You will recognize the people, the food, hear about the Lapps and of course be swallowed up by the dark nights in the winter and recognize how glorious it is when the spring comes and it never gets dark.but this is scary if you are hiding. Have you been in Norway? Then you will also appreciate it, the book I mean. Here is a survival story and a war story that will make you be happy to be alive. It is about events that occurred in Norway during the German occupation of WW2. Show More is true and I dare you to read this book and not feel happy at the end. Howarth's writing falls short of inspirational but the tale is amazing and worth reading. Unfortunate, since two of the Sámi complete Baalsrud's rescue. His descriptions are generally patronizing at best, offensive at times. ![]() About the only off-key note is the author's portrayal of the Sámi.or Lapps, as he calls them (most articles indicate that the Sámi consider the latter term derogatory). As history, about the only thing that might compare with it is Shackleton. In a work of fiction, this might not be believable even in a Dirk Pitt book. The impact of this story is that it is non-fiction. ![]() Along the way, he endured severe frostbite, gangrene, an avalanche, a major concussion, repeated starvation, multiple blizzards, a self-performed amputation, being buried for days, abandonment on a mountain plateau (wet) for weeks. In the coming weeks, aided by the Norwegian farmers of this remote region, hunted by Germans, he made his way to neutral Sweden. Jan Baalsrud escaped just 100 yards ahead of the German troops chasing him, through sub-zero weather while soaking wet (he had to swim through ice-filled water twice that first night), with a bare foot (one toe shot off). Show More attacked and sunk, and 11 of the men were killed. Read it yourself for the thrill a minute ride and for the insight into a brave, selfless people under the yoke of Nazi occupation. His survival is nothing short of unbelievable. ![]() Before that happens, Baalsrud will spend a month outside in the elements, either in a cave or a paper hut after being hauled up the sheer cliffs from the village to the plateau. That’s when the brave villagers took it upon themselves to help this ex-patriot get to Sweden and safety. The story of his journey is loaded with on the edge of your seat suspense as he fights off not only the Germans, who managed to shoot off the toes on one foot, but bone-chilling cold, snow blindness, and a 300 foot fall on a snowy plateau until he finally collapsed in a small cabin to the utter shock of the woman residing within. He manages, with the help of many, completely selfless Norwegians from the lonely, rural Arctic North, to make his way across the frozen tundra that is Norway to freedom and safety in Sweden. The book documents the unlikely survival of Jan Baalsrud. The mission is unsuccessful and all but one of the participants are killed or captured. In 1943, a team of Norwegians are trained by British intelligence to take a fishing boat from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway, where they will train the resistance. ![]()
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