num_pages: 307
description: Acknowledged throughout the world as one of the most moving and inspiring stories of survival ever written. In 1973, sixteen Uruguayan boys, most of them teenagers, were rescued after surviving for ten weeks in the snowy wastes of the high Andes after their plane crashed. This is the story of their survival, told with compassion, understanding, and restraint. First published in 1974New afterword by the authorNew material by and about the survivorsMaps, photographs
language: English
title: Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
titlecomplete: Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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: 74169
places: Andes Mountains, Santiago, Chile, Montevideo, Argentina
publisher: Adventure Library