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Local authorities found Ralston in Utah's Canyonlands National Park on Thursday, after less than a day's search. Ralston had been reported missing when he didn't show up for work at a mountaineering store in Aspen, Colo. He told his rescuers he had been hiking and rock climbing alone through the canyon, 40 miles from the nearest paved road and on a trail rarely used by others. But five days earlier, a boulder had crashed down on his right arm, pinning him in a 3-ft.-wide space. Ralston fought hard, but the rock wouldn't budge...
Ralston's adventuring has nearly killed him at least once before. According to the Aspen Times, he has made more than 40 solo winter climbs of Colorado's Fourteeners (peaks taller than 14,000 ft.), bringing just water, candy bars and an ice ax--no cell phone, no GPS, not so much as a rope. In February, while skiing near Vail, Colo., Ralston was buried to his neck in an avalanche; a friend was completely submerged for 10 minutes. When an Aspen Times reporter came calling in March for a story on Ralston's climbing feats, the outdoorsman told...
...intrigued. He told the paper he quit the Intel job when he couldn't take three weeks to go climbing in Alaska. Since then, he has made a life of exploring the outdoors and following the jam bands Phish and String Cheese Incident while working at Ute Mountaineer in Aspen...
After the avalanche, a friend pulled Ralston aside, according to the Aspen paper, and said, "Aron, I think you were headed for trouble; if this hadn't happened now, it could have been--or will be--deadly." It seems Aron Ralston has cheated death again, but at quite a price. --Reported by Rita Healy/Denver and Peta Owens-Liston/Salt Lake City
...salty ice cream, adorable presentations, things you eat with your fingers—one can’t help but wonder why Oleana looks (and feels—we were nearly roasted in our seats by an electric “wood” stove) like a sauna in Aspen instead of a reflection of the rich flavors and cultural history that inspire its food. Oleana need not take its décor as seriously as its mainly bespectacled Cantabrigian clientele take themselves. A bit more color adds to the stone gray and earth-toned wood interior?...