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127 Hours Fan Retraces Aron Ralston's Steps, Survives 96 Hours After Leg-Shattering Fall
Seth Abramovitch · 09/25/11 08:37PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k1juhh6f10jjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
There were many lessons you could have taken away from the movie 127 Hours, but if you had to boil it down to just one, it would probably be this: Never head out on a solo hiking trip to Utah's Canyonlands National Park without telling anyone. Well, Amos Wayne Richards, a 64-year-old from Concord, North Carolina, took away some different lessons entirely from 127 Hours. His lessons were all about the triumph of the human spirit and the fundamentality of man vs. nature and all that other spiritual crap that completely went out my ear the second James Franco sawed his arm off with a dull utility tool.