description: 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, they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable...This is their story—one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.
language: English
title: Alive
titlecomplete: Alive
characters: Nando Parrado, Panchito Abal, Bobby Francois, Entique Platero, Rafael Echavarren, Carlitos Páez, Marcelo Pérez, Coche Inciarte, Gustavo Zerbino, Mrs. Mariani, Pancho Delgado, Moncho Sabella, Javier Methol, Susanna Parrado, Antonio Vizintin, Liliana Methol, Roy Harley, Carlos Valeta, Daniel Fernández, Eduardo Strauch, Arturo Nogueira, Diego Storm, Fito Strauch, Roberto Canessa, Pedro Algorta
genres: Adventure, Historical, History, Travel, Survival, Biography Memoir, Biography, True Story, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 74160
places: Andes Mountains, Santiago, Chile, Montevideo, Argentina
publisher: Avon Books