‘Make your boulders into blessings’

DENVER – Aron Ralston, whose death-defying hiking experience was detailed in the major motion picture, 127 Hours, and the book, Between a Rock and a Hard place, told attendees at the Optometry’s Meeting opening session how he considered the incident a blessing.

An avid outdoorsman, Ralston set out on what he expected to be a 10- to 15-hour hike through Blue John Canyon in Utah on his own, without telling anyone where he was going.