127 Hours

[Jeffshadows]

This should be interesting...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/

[KwaiChang]

I dunno about you guys but I would much rather have an arm and no money rather than a stump and a bunch of greenbacks. I saw this guy on "A minute to Win It" - all I could think of was "No way I would ever be THAT unprepared when closing the front door behind me". Just saying......

[kevinweitzel75]

I think even if he were to have gotten help in, let's say, 2-3 hours, he would have still lost his hand. His hand was pretty smashed. I saw on discovery or one of those channels, had to have been 5 or more years ago. Some guy lost both his hands in an accident. He had these prosthedic hands that hooked to the nerves on the stumps of his arms. They looked just like hands except the hands spun 360 degrees at the wrist. Pretty friggin cool looking. They worked just like real hands.

[big_load]

I think even if he were to have gotten help in, let's say, 2-3 hours, he would have still lost his hand.

Probably so.

how me an outdoor enthusiast who has never had any kind of near-miss or incident and I'll show you a newbie!

Yup. Almost everyone I know has had a slip or near-fall that could easily have turned out much worse, myself included.

[azdesertfather]

Doubt SPOT would have helped in that narrow canyon.

Yeah, didn't exist then, but the benefit of SPOT is that if you are using its tracking feature (or just pushing OK fairly regularly), even if something goes wrong AND you can't get an SOS message out because of the signal, once someone notices you're not back they could check the site and see the last known location. In a situation like that, that alone would make a huge difference ...

But if you don't tell anybody you're going hiking anywhere, and you're unprepared and don't bring things like working batteries in the SPOT ... oh well ...

Suppose he could also theoretically have pushed the SOS button and tried his best to throw the GPS up out of the canyon ... ;)

[joebartels]

We just watched it, better than anticipated

[krispykritter]

We watched it the other nite, it made me want to sharpen my knife.
Does that water hole realy exist?

[RickVincent]

Do you travel alone? If so, who knows where you are going? Probably a good idea to make sure a close family member also knows your HAZ username and password in case of the need for a search party.