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## The Fourteeners Project: Completing What He Started
The Blue John Canyon entrapment did not end Aron Ralston’s engagement with the outdoors. It changed the terms of that engagement, shifted his risk tolerance over time, and eventually altered his philosophy of what outdoor adventure was for — but it did not bring his climbing career to an end.
He completed the solo winter Colorado fourteeners project in 2005, approximately two years after the entrapment, becoming the first person ever to accomplish it. The project had been his stated goal when he left Intel in 2002. Losing his right arm from the forearm down had required him to adapt his techniques for climbing and self-arrest, to develop prosthetic solutions for the specific demands of high-altitude winter mountaineering, and to rebuild a physical competence that had been interrupted by the most dramatic possible interruption. He did all of this, and he completed the project.
In 2005 he also climbed Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Western Hemisphere, located in the Argentine Andes. In 2008 he climbed Ojos del Salado and Monte Pissis, two of the high volcanic peaks of the Andes. His post-entrapment mountaineering record was not the record of someone who had been deterred by what happened in Blue John Canyon. It was the record of someone who had returned to the mountains and continued to push his own limits, while gradually developing a more conscious relationship with the risks he was taking.