#1 New York Times Bestseller
"No one will come away unmoved by the book, and no one will be able to
put it down.... There is no way of reading Alive without a heightened
sense of one's own life and its value." -- New Republic
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. A tale of astonishing bravery
and adventure, Alive is much more than a survival story, it is a
breathtaking saga of human courage
The P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book,
including interviews, recommended reading, and more.