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From Tom Brokaw and NBC News comes what may be one of the most amazing survival stories of our time. A young hiker named Aaron Ralston is trapped for six days, 100 feet below ground, in a narrow Utah canyon - his arm crushed under an 800-pound boulder. There was only one way for Ralston to free himself and stay alive: cut off his trapped arm.
But could he survive that?
Throughout his ordeal, Ralston keeps a diary with a home-video camera stowed in his backpack. Those scenes display gripping details of his nightmare as it happens, as Ralston speaks what may be his final words to family and friends, and as he moves closer to his inevitable decision.
Meanwhile, back home in Denver, his mother Donna works frantically to locate her missing son. Will she get help to him in time?
In this feature-length documentary, Ralston and Tom Brokaw -- himself a veteran mountain climber -- return to the scene of the ordeal, and walk step-by-step along Ralston's rough road to survival. It's an astounding journey that makes Survivor a powerful story of courage, love and the will to live.
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