By BRETT PRETTYMAN, Salt Lake Tribune

Profile: A talk with Aron Ralston, the self-amputee behind '127 Hours'

Aron Ralston has watched his arm cut off dozens, probably hundreds of times.

It's the most controversial scene of the new film "127 Hours," a fictional account based on Ralston's 2003 solo canyoneering trip gone wrong in southern Utah's narrow Bluejohn Canyon.

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Male elk sets a record with his antlers

It's official.
A behemoth male elk dubbed the "Spider bull," taken by a hunter in central Utah last fall, carried the largest antler rack ever recorded by the Boone and Crockett Club and has been recognized as the new world record for a non-typical American elk.

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National park sights featured on White House ornaments

Working as part of a wildland fire crew in Zion National Park over two summers gave Shannon Eberhard a unique vision of the natural wonder of the land in southern Utah.

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