Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. As he slid down and off of a boulder it shifted, trapping his right hand against the canyon wall. He remained trapped for five days in the canyon: hypothermic at night, de-hydrated and hallucinating by day. He then had to face the most terrible decision of his life...

"Previously published as Between a rock and a hard place."--T.p. verso.