Chapter 13 "Day Six: Enlightenment and Euphoria" Summary and Analysis

On Thursday, May 1, 2003, Ralston is surprised to still be alive. He has made it through another night. By 8:30 a.m., the raven has not flown overhead.

Ralston decides that he wants to die listening to music. He pulls out his CD player only to discover that the player and the disks are in a half-inch of sand. The disks are scratched and won't play. The CD player doesn't work, and after changing the batteries, Ralston figures the player was damaged during the fall.

Once again Ralston turns on the video camera. He tells his sister that if she still wants him to play piano at her wedding, there are tapes of him playing at their parents' house.

After another frustrating attack on the chockstone with the rock, Ralston reassesses...