Alive, Piers Paul Read
Alive, Piers Paul Read
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Alive
The Story of the Andes Survivors

Author: Piers Paul Read

Narrator: Paul Ansdell

Unabridged: 11 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure

Synopsis

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,these men and women not only had to keep their faith, they had to make an impossible decision: Should they eat the flesh of their dead friends? A remarkable story of endurance and determination, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors audiobook is the dramatic bestselling account of one of the most harrowing quests for survival in modern times.

About Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read, the son of poet and art critic Sir Herbert Read, was raised in North Yorkshire, was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, and was a student of history at Cambridge University. Before publishing his first novel, Game in Heaven, he worked as a subeditor on the Times Literary Supplement. His fiction and nonfiction has won many awards, and several of his works have been adapted for television or film.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on October 12, 2022

Miracle in the Andes. In 1972, a plane full of rugby players and their families crashed in The Andes Mountains. The story is well known. Scarcely with any food or water, suffering sub-zero temperatures, only sixteen of forty-five made it out alive. After nearly three months struggling to survive,......more

Goodreads review by Overhaul on January 22, 2024

La verdadera historia de los supervivientes de los Andes, protagonistas de La sociedad de la nieve, la nueva y aclamada película de J. A. Bayona. La historia de supervivencia más brutal de la historia. Un equipo y una meta. "¡Viven!" El triunfo del espíritu humano relata esta horrible y escalofriante......more

Goodreads review by Chris Lee (away) on November 13, 2023

Many moons ago, when I became absolutely obsessed with hiking and mountaineering, I went to the second-hand book store and picked up old copies of Into Thin Air, High Adventure, and this book, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. There is nothing quite like the persistence of human achievement,......more

Goodreads review by Justo on October 10, 2020

Este libro lo leí hace muchos años, pero me dejó anonadado. Imprescindible.......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka on December 19, 2022

I read this book over 3 months ago and just couldn't review it. It was that horrifying. It just felt to me as though I should not be reading this personal story of the survivors in the Andes mountains. And at times, it felt as though I was standing by, just watching. I felt, too, that this book shou......more

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