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  • Just some advice. When trying to prove your point or argue your side you lose all creditability when resorting to name calling. Especially homophobic slang terms. Educated, classy,and well rounded individuals simply don't utter such vile atrocities. To insult a complete stranger on a message board or comment area speaks volumes in regards to your character and quality of your life. I feel embarrassed for such people. It's proof of education level, mental illness, or bad parenting.

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  • never underestimate yourself..

  • a kid looks under his bed for the boogey man the boogey looks under his bed for chuck norris

    chuck norris looks under his bed for aaron ralston

  • Don't u understand that the guy is just trolling you to see how you react in this whole Ralston vs Chuck Norris thing.

    And as tha works preety well according to those comments, this trolll must have a lot of fun behind his screen.

    So just ignore him, because clearly he's making jokes on you all guys...

  • Aron Ralston must have strength, dragging his huge balls out of there. Sorry, Chuck Norris, but Aron is tougher than you.

  • Chuck Norris would willingly suck on Ralston's humongous hairy balls - FUCK CHUCK NORRIS AND FUCK YOU IDIOTIC PEOPLE DROPPING HIS NAME ON THIS VIDEO.......whew now that I go that out, you people honestly shouldn't be joking around on this video. Ralston's story is incredibly inspiring, and making any sort of jokes about him is just flat out stupid

  • @mayhoo22 Chuck Norris has his both arms, this guy hasn't. Winner = Chuck Norris.

  • @Veehmot Chuck Norris may have both his arms, but YOU have half a brain. Show some goddam respect you immature dickhead

  • @Veehmot are u that fucking stupid chuck norris cant do any of that aron ralston did which makes him a real winner at live and as for you well what schwebs said u need to shut the fuck up you inconsiderate pile of elephant shit

  • god gave him a gift to let him have his life still going

  • made a movie too based on his story

  • grande aaron

  • Why are people still making a fuss over you?... because you cut off your own fucking arm Aron, that's why.

  • i salute you aron, i'm at behind you to support, thanks for being an inspiration to us. i've seen the movie so many many times.. i'd still watched it over and over again specially when i'm at lowest point in my life just to refresh and inspired again aside from praying.. your supreme selfishness is our game.. thank you aron!

  • wow what an incredible test of courage and strength and most of all! of GODS grace for a desparate situation. what's yours? im changed.. ty aron...i watched the movie four times... it was so so so like old testament courage in a new testament world! you r an INSPIRATION! to all..God bless ! mother's and their prayers and to GOD for hearing and answering!

  • @reachout012 thank you that is very kind of you

  • @reachout012 fault bad for the man lost his arm he had to cut it he was missing too in the canyons made a movie based on him

  • lol at his shirt "got stump?"

  • I think by focusing on him "still" we get to do this incredible thing that he did vicariously. We get this experience of loving life more than death and sacrificing ourselves consequently. With his education, we are educated.

  • Dont you now feel like you should always carry a big and sharp knife with you? Man, his story makes you think so much in so many things.. Its such a power stuff. Damn!!

  • On the other hand, Im sure that Aron, being smart as he is, knew since the first few days he had to break his bone to be able to cut himself free. He might had the hope of getting rescued, get free somehow, or simply the instinct to live longer before do it, but he knew what was happening. That doesnt change the fact hes a Hero and a great teacher. Im also sure he fought through the days with his arm and the rock to the point he lost his strength many times. Damn, must been really hard times.

  • Hes like a professor that marked you and you will never forget

  • TO THE PEOPLE WHO CANT UNDERSTAND WHY OTHERS CARE ABOUT THIS:

    Hes not a hero for saving the world, or giving his life to save other lifes. Not a hero in that way. Hes a Hero because he took a few quite HARD lessons in life - a few, not just the shocky one - and was able to learn them all. Plus, he was able to survive and share all those lessons with us, transforming his story into a Huge Lesson to the world. Now I care more about some values in life. Dont you think Aron deserves credit for it?

  • i love at 1:10 that girl is just glaring at his arm, these kids need to take this stuff in. they're only impressionable when they want to be it seems.

  • 2:44 -- Find the "Yellow Slurpee" juice.

  • this guy trips me out cuz he is like me in many ways, i'm not soloing 14ers in winter but i live in colorado in the mountains, i hike solo all the time, i love phish, i am really inspired by mr ralston, the irony that he had brushes with death so frequently from mountaineering in extreme conditions then this happens on his vacation. he was looking for adventure and so am i and i hope i don't create a scenario like he had cuz damn, his balls are way bigger than mine, dude aron, you are my hero

  • respect life.!!

  • 0:56 look at that cheecky little bitch staring at his arm

  • Dude is a badass, seal team 6 level.

  • his hair got longer

  • who the hell disliked this video?

  • anybody else see justin bieber at 1:03

  • what a brave man!! to recover and get back on the horse from... not a simple thing... nope...

  • People look up to him because he made a choice. He did the unthinkable, most people don't have that kind of WILL power.

  • This guy is amazing, He is like my hero

  • @Mittensofthemorning its because you cant spell thats why gearagfegegrthfd

  • you guys are retards, this guy did something huge!

    i would like to see you amputate your arm.

  • I love having both my hands. One of the benefits of not being a retard.

  • @savemyplaylist you're calling aron a retard? seriously?

  • @Tubenuub fuck off and go bugger your father's asshole

  • @savemyplaylist Wow... You're actually retard number 1... 0.o

    That doesn't make any sense at all and you have just built the hardest riddle ever, it will take my entire life to solve it, if I can.

  • @savemyplaylist I don't understand your comment? I'm am still in awe at the lack of knowledge you radiated in your comment that I just don't know what to think. My brain has been cramped up.

  • @elliotsherrow Learn English you nimrod.

  • @savemyplaylist Could you tell me where my English was flawed? I apologize in advance for my poor English. I hope you have it in you to forgive me.

  • he make me love water !!!

  • You are my hero.

  • haha at the shirt

  • nice shirt aron...

  • MAAD MAD MAD MAD MAD MAD MAD respect for this guy.

  • @Pandafanekn they were'nt in blue john canyon when he were stuck with his arm. they actually built an exact copy of what it looks like, the place where it all happened, and recorded it all in a studio. but in the beggining and at the end they were there :)

  • @MsBondiBlue

    Haha yea i know, but i think they had the model of it IN Blue John canyon is what i was sayin :)

    But i could be wrong :P

  • @Pandafanekn

    aah you mean so, yea maybe :p i'm not sure either ;p

  • 127 hours was a good movie

  • PENIS !

  • @SCHWEBS7 Now there's an original statement !

  • Aron, you are by nature very humble. But you are truly an inspiration, whether you will admit it or not.

  • This guy is amazing! I can't describe the feelings I get when I see these videos of him..

    Respect to you, Aron Ralston!

  • Got Stump? Love it.

  • i like in the movie when he gets loose from the rock then takes a picture of it and says "thank you"

  • i wanna hug him !

  • dude i love this story i think its kinda sad that he Almost died and then cut his arm off i would never be able to do thst even if i was in a life or death situation

  • @gAbEIsDaBeAsT1 well what choice do you have,dieing or cutting your arm to live.

  • i love how hes embracing it with that shirt ♥

  • haha i love his shirt :) got stump?

  • imagine your arm being stuck with a boulder in a canyon ..isolated from your friends, your family, from everyone .you try so hard to survive and you go into desperation mode. . .you become so desperate that you cut off your own arm .. this guy is a hero..and when i say desperate, i don't mean it negatively..i call it desperation for seeing a brighter day. .aron ralston .hats off to you . Now i'll go take some notes ...

  • @furydeluxery Chuck Norris is a fagget ass over rated piece of shit fire dick that doesnt do shit. He sales mighty Gyms. Chuck Norris didnt cut of his own arm. Chuck Norris didnt stay alive for 6 days trapped with the only hope that he was gonna die. He had a bottle of water and a Burrito to survive. Aron's balls would smash Chuck Norris killing him instantly. You need to shut the fuck up you inconsiderate pile of elephant shit.

  • @SCHWEBS7  you are really,really smart.

  • @SCHWEBS7 talking about Aron's genitals and cursing up a storm is also very inconsiderate.

  • @SCHWEBS7 Can Aron Ralston speak braille?

    Can Aron Ralston kill a dead person?

    Can Aron Ralston light ants on fire with a magnifying glass.. AT NIGHT?

    Can Aron Ralston do a wheelie on a unicycle?

    Can Aron Ralston win connect 4 in 3 moves?

    Can Aron Ralston benchpress an 18 wheeler... with himself inside it?

    Can Aron Ralston smell sound and hear touch?

    Cleary Chuck Norris can do all of the above but i seriously doubt Aron Ralston can do any of these.

  • @Veehmot Can Chuck Norris ACTUALLY do any of those things?

    No.

    Are any of Chuck Norris' accomplishments actually based on reality?

    No.

    Aron Ralston's are, so he is the clear winner.

  • @Veehmot  do you not understand what this man went through?? Are you that dumb? this man is a hero, he was brave, fuck chuck norris, would you have d courage to do something like that? useless piece of shit. learn to appreciate instd of making dumb comments! Who gives a fuck abt chuck norris?

  • @SCHWEBS7 Chuck Norris wasnt stupid enuf to go out without a mobile or tell people where he is. And anybody in the same situation would do the same thing to survive!! He had no choice!! Chuck would cut hes arm off for no reason and say oops a scratch.

  • @SCHWEBS7 why do people care who's got the "bigger balls"... wtf? you think chuck norris actually gives a shit about if he's got bigger balls than someone else, no its people that want him to look good that say this, but then why you getting angry at chuck norris?

  • I wonder what he thinks when he watches Saw..

  • HE IS 1 OF 100000000000000000000000000000­000000000000000000000000

    BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER

  • i have so much respect for u aron 

  • @ 4:34 Even years later people feel that like " Why are we paying attention to him, why are we celebrating this guy who kinda was a idiot and made a big mistake, and who isent that talented of a climber and all the rest of this " And i'm just like " Yeah! Tottaly, tell me when you figured it out cause i'd like to know " ..... sutch a funny statement of himself, outmost respect to you Aron!

  • lmaooo 1:07 i had the same look on my face when i was watching the movie lol

  • the best man and hard

  • Acabo de ver la pelicula y en verdad me parece una historia realmente increible, el espiritu humano y su deseo por permanecer vigente, hacen que las personas se vuelvan extraordinariamente fuertes. Todo esta en la mente, y por suerte que Aron es todo un atleta, creo que una persona como yo no hubiera resistido ni dos dias.

  • knuckle touch!! ... oh lol

  • @dsalcedo19 you mother fucker......

    pepole like you make me sick

  • @brendanboy11 aaaaa dude that was my fucking brother... im gonna kick his ass... this guy is my fucking hero... id never write that

  • I love his sense of humor, truly remarkable story. I saw the film and documentaries, but i still must own the book. Respect.

  • dis guy iz brave as FUCK

  • this one fucked up nigga

  • This man is so humble. But what he did says so much about him. He is intelligent, but he has such moxie. A truly inspiring individual. I wish I had his courage, and his love of life.

  • 1:48 That's not Aron Ralston!

  • @MacGyver920

    Lol yea it is. If you buy the book and flip to the back with the pictures, that's the last shot of him before he lost his arm.

  • @Pandafanekn Looks like an old man...well, well :P One more thing: Why did they film the movie 127 Hours at the actual site?

  • @Pandafanekn They have like destroyed the place...

  • @MacGyver920

    :P well they filmed the movie there, so it might still be there today which would be somethin else.

    reguardless, he's amazing. :)

  • @Pandafanekn Did they really film it in Blue John Canyon?

  • @ThatGuyAdrianLF

    Yea, as far as i know. :)

  • I always feel so sad when I hear this for two reasons. 1) Its a true, amazing, and sad story and 2) I was celebating my birthday wen he was cutting his arm off :(

  • he looks cool with that jesus hair style

  • This guy is the inspiration for me to grow my beard out.

  • lol got stump. i love this guy 

  • lol girl at 0:55

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  • This guy is clearly related to chuck norris!

  • is PETZL giving this dude Money or what?

  • Love his shirt :P Got stump?

  • Not much gets me motivated but this does i doubt a small small percentange of people actually have the guts and balls to do what he did he f'n rocks!!!!

  • Let's hope he doesnt have to amputate his balls of steel since they must be weighing him down.

  • 0:20

  • I wanna give him a hug!

  • Look at the half girl and half boy staring at his arm

  • It's impossible for the human mind to imagine cutting one owns arm off and not with a sharp knife. Slowly. Wow, the courage.

  • Whats that picture of at 1:59?

  • @xLilycakesx Its the canyon he fell down.

  • @xLilycakesx the canyon he fell in

  • he's so cute with long hair :x :P

  • OH MY GOSH! look at the girl at 0:56. U-LOL!! XD

  • he looks like a pirate(not referring to his hand.. just his hair)

  • thats the most relaxing voice of a woman i ever heard. whos she?

  • @zootier Your mother.

  • I don't like his hair. He shouldn't have long hair! And at 1:49 he looks like an old man! I do not like his hair! :-/

  • @MacGyver920 Good grief... Is this all you took from this story? You didn't like his fucking HAIR??? Boo-fucking-hoo.

    Seriously, go fucking shoot yourself you vapid, vacuous, superficial little cunt.

  • @krisboro The number 1 word I've been called by you fucking trolls is cunt, cunt, cunt, who the hell cares?! The word is getting old so quit calling me that! I didn't_ like_ his hair. That is my_fucking_opinion. I didn't tell anybody to fucking care! If you don't agree with me on this little worthless piece of crap then I'm fine with that!

  • @MacGyver920 seriously all you took away from his remarkable story was how his hair looked during that period of time? that's sad.

  • @Meggaannnxo Come on! I love the guy, the story makes me cry but I didn't like his hair in this video! So what?! Who the hell cares?!

  • I know i will ask someone a lot but can anyone give me the full speech of the video (All what is said) because i'm deaf and i really aprecciate it.

    Sorry for my english but i'm italian.

  • 5 dislikes?!

  • Grylls would probably just have one of his cameramen go call for help, but why talk about him? This video is about Aron's story =]

  • many things make this story remarkable, like the character in the movie says, it was almost like it was meant to be, I like the part in the movie where he says this rock was waiting for me since the day I was born, everything in my life, every decision, has led me to this place, and the fact that he saw a vision of his son makes it incredible, he wasn't stupid, he is very smart had a good job, speaks many languages, plays piano very good, etc... but like he said is like it was meant to happen

  • i want to be BRAVE like you, but i dont want to get STUCK in there like you :D

  • i wonder what bear grylls would have done in this situation!

  • @bustard071

    Had his enormous camera crew call in a hellicopter to lift the boulder off in about 5 minutes..

  • @bustard071 - Grylls? Well for starters, he would have eaten the arm once he cut it off, I can tell you that.

  • @bustard071 Hed Pee On it!

  • Aron is a fucking legend.

  • Truly an inspirational story of personal discovery and will to survive. I to be able to have in that situation take your life in your hands and survive is incredible. Telling todays youth about your experiences and with your wisdom educated people is what I feel most people would not do, for this your inspire me to take life everyday and never give up. Thank you for sharing this story to the world because of this i believe we all can learn something

  • @srkb001 so what you're saying is you would have the where-with-all to, first, fashion a tourniquet out of a piece of nylon tubing, then proceed to snap BOTH of the bones in your forearm, and after all of that, having had no food in 5 days, no water in 3 days, no sleep in 6 nights, STILL have the energy determination and strength of will to spend over an hour hacking through your arm with a dull, bent and dirty 2 inch blade. you would have probably used the pliers to rip tendon too right? ^,-

  • 3:07 wow.

  • To answer his question at the end: Because many people would choose to die, or not have enough courage to amputate their own arm. The sheer amount of strength and bravery, that will to live, is enough to have your name in the halls of fame more so than anyone else I can think of at this moment.

  • @beetlebomb1

    but i think in the case of hunger, dehydrated, with knife in ur hand, everybody will do what he was doing.

  • @srkb001 I cant imagine certain individuals in my life to have the gut to slowly cut through their arm after breaking their bones.

    Put your mother, grandmother, girlfriend, little brother, etc. Into the scenario and ask yourself if they'll react the same way.

  • Aron Ralston: traped in a hole for 6 days before cutting his arm of and leaving towards freedom

    Me: traped in a hole for 1 day before dying of shock

  • I wonder how he slept

  • @ausipockets He didn't sleep through all six days. Just makes it that much more remarkable.

  • people keep saying that cutting the arm is a stupid decision, but its a very wise decision. His arm was decomposing while trappes and decomposing poisoness gass started to form in his arm. That can com to poison in the body, so then there is a chose, you or the arm.

    fill the rest of the story yourself

    ;)

  • 4:50 is that other person also an amputee?

    i think the leg is prosthetic...

  • Jigsaw has nothing on this guy. Much respect.

  • this guy has balls

  • One bad decision after another and yet he stilled managed to make it out of the depths of despair... amazing. His story is truly remarkable.

  • 127 HOURS YAAAHHHHH!

  • i love that last tone that sounds

  • I don't like his hair.

  • @Tribute2the80s

    what you were expecting? God comes down to the canyon and saves him ? lol

  • I think anyone in his situation would do the same thing as a last resort, cutting his or her arm.

  • His testicles must me solid gold.

  • If I were he, I would blow up that damn rock into a thousand pieces.

  • AH FUCK COMMERCIAL!

  • hahah nice tshirt

  • Crazy. Can't believe someone can endure all that. I saw he's going to be on MINUTE TO WIN IT next week playing for charity. Can't wait to see that, especially playing some of those games one handed. Gonna be awesome!

  • I always wonder in April 2003 what I was doing while this guy was cutting his arm off...

    o.O

  • @TAz69x ME TOO

    ALL THE TIME.

  • @TAz69x well when aron ralston was cutting off his arm i was 5 (now 12) and probably watching Roseanne and eating Cheetos

  • @ancona246 ok...

  • @ausipockets lol 

  • @TAz69x masturbating

  • @perrym6 poor Aron

    LOL, he probably had to switch hands he jerks off with as part of his rehabilitation

    o.O

    =3

  • @TAz69x something FAR EASIER, thats EVERYONE'S ANSWER! - but i guess some people were killing people, or themselves, getting a divorce, watching their kid die... you can really think of many things worse, because at the time of his arm cutting HE HAD HOPE, and despite the extreme pain, HOPE COUNTERS much of the pain and over powers it..., not to mention his arm was already dying and he cut off some of his circulation pre"surgery"... too bad he didn't have some pain killers, morphine please!

  • @TAz69x Sad thing was I think I was getting high...what a shame. I was wasting my life and he was hacking off his arm.

  • @TAz69x Me too, I kind of feel bad for probably sleeping in my warm bed and eating food while he went through this.

  • @TAz69x I know....I was in Verona, Italy celebrating easter with my Italian, Israeli and Palestinian friends...

  • @TAz69x maybe sleeping

  • @TAz69x That's even more disrespectful than me.

  • @MacGyver920 Strange ass reply man

    ...Like myself, concomitantly entailing consensus of (as of yet) ~196 ppl as well, we, INSTANTLY see the gift of Life we take for granted every day, and how much more it means to us each day as experiences like Aron's reveal to us, how fragile our daily life and existence really is.

    i suffer a number of life-threatening illnesses, which have brought me to "clinical death" two official times in my life, so I know the feeling Aron's describing.

    (cont...)

  • @TAz69x (...cont.)

    It just makes me wonder, how much I have embraced life and enjoyed it, such as is revealed in situations like Aron`s where you`re almost singularly forced to analyze and examine your life, accomplshm'ts, loves, desires, abilities, ambitions, unfulfilled dreams, etc.,and how the foreboding canvas encompassing your imminent death can reveal to you your lackluster and somewhat lethargic apathetic pursuit of your dreams, and how you should ~REALLY~ LIVE your ambitions while U Can!