He Lost His Arm But Is Still Climbing
Aron Ralston is an American man who______ mountain climbing. As a mountain climber, Aron is used to ______. This is one of the exciting things about doing dangerous sports. There were many times when Aron almost lost his life because of ____. On April 26, 2003, he found himself in a very _______when climbing in Utah.
On that day, Aron’s arm was caught under a 360-kilo rock that ____ on him when he was climbing by himself in the mountains. Because he could not_____, he stayed there for five days and hoped that someone would find him. But when his water_____, he knew that he would have to do something to save his own life. He was not ready to die that day. So he_____his knife to cut off his right arm. Then, with his left arm, he bandaged himself so that he would not ______. After that he climbed down the mountain to find help.
After losing his arm, he wrote a book called Between a Rock and a Hard Place. This ____ being in a difficult situation that you cannot _____ to get out of. In this book, Aron tells of the importance of _______, and of being in _____ of one’s life. His love for mountain climbing is so great that he kept on climbing mountains even after this______.
Do we have the same spirit as Aron? Let’s think about it before we find ourselves “between a rock and a hard place”, and before we have to make a decision that could mean life or death.