One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told --- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one if the most remote spots in America and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. With scant water and little food, no jacket for the painfully cold nights, and the terrible knowledge that he'd told no one where he was headed, he found himself facing a lingering death-- trapped by an 800-pound boulder 100 feet down the bottom of a canyon. The knowledge of his family's love kept Aron Ralston alive, until a divine inspiration on Thursday morning solved the riddle of the boulder. Aron then committed the most extreme act imaginable to save himself.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- a brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life -- will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories.