This story is going by so very slowly... i read whenever i can because it's so interesting though. Aron has been trapped long enough that he thinks he's going to die so he has been making a video diary in hopes that someone will find it when he is gone. He has basically given up hope in surviving and is thinking about all of the things he did wrong when he was hiking those few days before. How Kristi and Megan were sent as his guardian angels. And all of his mistakes.
He goes back into his life before his arm was gone, and talks about all of the climbing and work he has done. Right now he is climbing at Mount Holy Cross. He almost died climbing this one too. He went up to the summit, and the nest day when he was coming back down he slipped into a hole and the snow made a cracking sound and the ground started to give way. He realized that the previous day he had climbed right over that very spot and nothing had happened, but as he looked down at the damage he saw that if he hadn't jumped over onto the rocks that were next to where he was standing he would have fallen about 500 feet. His body would have been smashed against the rocks below. He then talks about how we look over the small things that we survive every day,but when it comes to the huge things we notice.
When Aron goes back to the "present" time he is still talking about the video diary and he edventually has to turn it off after explaining most of what has happened so far and how he got into that mess. He has to turn the camera off for a second or two because he starts to get choked up and he cries. He turns the camera back on and says i love you and goodbyes to his family.
I find myself feeling so sorry for him because of all the things he's been through, but then i think, he's made so many mistakes he should have learned from them by now but obviously hasn't because he's still making them. All of these incidents have only made him stronger as a person and a hiker i think.
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