It is truly amazing what the human body can achieve when pinned against life or death situations. Many survivors claim it to be an out-of-body experience – when survival instincts kick in and the brain shuts down. Below is a list of miraculous tales of survival that illustrate the resiliency of the human spirit.
Aron Ralston
Aron Ralston was hiking in the canyons of Utah when an 800-pound boulder fell on his arm and left him for dead. Pinned and bleeding for five days, he chose to cut off his own arm as his only chance of survival. Leveraging the boulder to snap his bone, he then used a pocketknife to cutaway the surrounding tissue and tendons and managed to rappel down a 65-foot cliff to stagger to his rescue.
[via Herald Daily]
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