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Alive

the Story of the Andes Survivors
Feb 13, 2017danielestes rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The Miracle of the Andes is what the South Americans called it. In 1972 a group of forty-five passengers, including a number of young rugby players, chartered a flight from Uruguay to Chile, only the plane never made it to its destination. It crashed in the heart of the Andes mountains and all were feared lost. Rescuers didn't even know where to start looking. Ten weeks later a lone farmer in the remote foothills on the Chilean side of the Andes mountain valley encountered two of the survivors, both exhausted and half-starved from their arduous ten-day hike through the high-altitude snowy terrain. They were desperately seeking help for themselves and the fourteen who were still alive up on the mountain. Alive by Piers Paul Read is the authorized, true account of how a group of mostly young men, some of them barely adults, were confronted with a terrible tragedy and subsequently forced to choose between death and survival at a great cost. This is one of my favorite books of all-time and a must-read if you're interested in human vs. nature survival stories.