Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

"A classic in the literature of survival." --Newsweek

On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snow-peaked Andes Mountains. Ten weeks later, only 16 of the 45 passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and scarcely any hope of a rescue. They survived by protecting and helping one another, and coming to the difficult conclusion that to live meant doing the unimaginable. Confronting nature at its most furious, two brave young men risked their lives to hike through the mountains looking for help--and ultimately found it.

“"A classic in the literature of survival."”

"A book you won't soon forget."--Cleveland Press "A chilling tale.... Will involve the reader as thoroughly as the best adventure novel. A book of real and lasting value."--Rolling Stone --Newsweek "A great book . . . . an incredible saga. Read's accomplishment in recording a struggle both physical and spiritual is superb."--Philadelphia Inquirer "A masterpiece...It is inconceivable to me that this story could have been better told."--Graham Greene "An adventure both physical and spiritual...Mr. Read was chosen by the survivors to write a full and balanced account of their ordeal, and he has done so with conspicuous success."--The New Yorker "An adventure story to rival those of Hillary and Tensing, Thor Heyerdahl, or Jacques Cousteau."--Chicago Tribune "Superb...flawless.... A testimonial to the durability and determination of young men who might have chosen to die and simply would not."--Detroit Free Press "Thunderous entertainment...A classic human adventure...A narrative of terrific and enduring significance."--New York Times "Tragic, heartwarming, inspiring, shocking, terrifying, and true."--Columbus Dispatch "No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to put it down.... There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened sense of one's own life and its value."--New Republic

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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.

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