Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes

“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
Sixteen Men, Seventy—Two Days, and
Insurmountable Odds—the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes
On October 12, 1972,
an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty—fiv...