Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction)

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He was warmly dressed in a woollen cap and a waterproof jacket, but the strong wind blew snow into his eyes and stung the skin of his face and hands. In the end, after the deaths of 8 in an avalanche, and a further few from a combination of injuries and malnutrition, 16 of the boys eventually made it, after two of them managed to find a way out of the barren area where they were stranded by scaling a mountain, and raised the alarm. As night set in, the survivors were wet, cramped, and bitterly cold, with no cushions, shoes or blankets to protect them. The survivors are reunited with their loving families, and a memorial to the dead is installed at the crash site. That said - I would still recommend it - as the story itself is a remarkable one - and this is still conveyed quite well in the book.

Overall I enjoyed the book - but I wouldn't give it 5 stars - as I think it could have been constructed better than it actually was (in my humble opinion!

Among the passengers are wealthy young men, socialist students, middle-aged men and women, and dozens of others. The survivors] had neither sensationalized nor sentimentalized their own experience and it seemed important for me to tell the reader what they had told me in the same 'matter-of-fact' manner. Now I'm older, and it's not the cannibalism that captures my attention, but how these very young men kept their sanity, faith and courage in the face of unimaginable horrors. He realized immediately what had happened and struggled against the grip of the snow, but he could not move any part of his body so much as an inch one way or the other.

Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snow-peaked Andes Mountains. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). For one thing, this true story of survival lacks all the romanticism of such fictions as The Swiss Family Robinson or Robinson Crusoe (and it has nothing to do with that fact that there are no Uruguayan “Robinsons. He too was buried, imprisoned and suffocating, and like Parrado he was possessed less by panic than by curiosity. A sleeping bag made from the lining of the plane allows them to sleep outside without succumbing to the elements.