What decision would you make?
We’ve all had to make difficult decisions in our lives. Whether to own or rent a house, whether to use an inheritance to invest or to see the world, whether to have more children or close up shop. But as difficult as those decisions may feel at the time, I’m sure not many of us have had to make the decision 28-year-old Aron Ralstron made in 2005. Aron had to choose to live or die. It all started when he broke the cardinal rule of mountain climbing: always take a buddy, or at least tell someone where you are going. He went climbing on his own and after climbing down a narrow slot in Bluejohn Canyon, Utah, a boulder shifted and crushed his left arm, pinning him to the canyon wall. He tried desperately to move the rock but it wouldn’t budge an inch. Aron wasn’t expected at work for days, and when people did decide to come looking for him, they would have no idea where to start. He knew he was going to die. He carved his name and “RIP” in the rock and used his camera to record messa