Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Pages,
Binding,
Edition,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Read
Author First Name:
Piers
Pages:
420
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
Reissue
ISBN 10:
038000321X
ISBN 13:
9780380003211
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
William Morrow Paperbacks
Date Published:
5/1/1975
Genre:
Sports Memoirs
Description
“A classic in the literature of survival.” —NewsweekOn October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snow-peaked Andes Mountains. Ten weeks later, only 16 of the 45 passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane’s fuselage without food and scarcely any hope of a rescue. They survived by protecting and helping one another, and coming 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.