Alive 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-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came 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. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.Read, Piers Paul is the author of 'Alive Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, And Insurmountable Odds--The Classic Adventure Of Survival In The Andes', published 2005 under ISBN 9780060778668 and ISBN 0060778660.