Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Type

Book

Authors

Piers Paul Read

ISBN 10

038000321X

ISBN 13

9780380003211

Tags

Performing Arts, Latin America, Travelers & Explorers, Movies, South America, Biographies, Mountain Climbing, Survival Skills, Adventure

Description

On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable ... This is their story -- one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century. - from Amzon

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