Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Softcover

Read, Piers Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 038000321X ISBN 13: 9780380003211

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, 1975

Synopsis

“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.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Piers Read is the author of numerous, critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including A Patriot in Berlin (1996), Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl (1993), On the Third Day (1989), and A Season in the West (1989). Mr. Read lives in London.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038000321X
• ISBN 13: 9780380003211
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 318