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Alive

The Story of the Andes Survivors

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Alive

By: Piers Paul Read
Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
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On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of the 45 original passengers and crew, only 16 made it off the mountain alive. For 10 excruciating weeks, they suffered deprivations beyond imagining, confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive, these men and women not only had to keep their faith; they had to make an impossible decision: Should they eat the flesh of their dead friends?

A remarkable story of endurance and determination, Alive is the dramatic best-selling account of one of the most harrowing quests for survival in modern times.

©2002 Piers Paul Read (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Americas Climbing & Mountaineering Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science South America World Survival Thought-Provoking

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i have always found this story story fascinating. This survival story gives a good account of what happened to those survivors of the Andes plane crash and i found the narrators voice very easy to listen to. Well worth the money and time in my opinion.

Great story!

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the story here is incredibly powerful. I'm not religious, but it's clear how much faith enabled the survivors from the crash to endure their awful ordeal.

very bleak, but astonishing

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Amazing story. Very well written. Narrator is overall very good, although could have been better at pronunciation of Spanish names and place-names.

Brilliant

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Great account of survival. Reader's voice is very calming! Found it a very interesting listen

Survival

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It’s difficult to not know something about ‘Alive’. It lives in the culture as a reference to what we all might have to be capable of one day. This book is incredible at humanising that struggle, from the victims but also from the frantic families never giving up hope in the face of cynical authority.

A great book that reminds us of what it is to be human, visceral in its telling.

What an incredible story

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The story here is absolutely crazy.. would recommend for that alone.
A tragic accident in the first place but then pile on top of that everything else they had to endure.

Mental story..

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I liked the delivery of the book. I definitely do recommend, it's a good read.

Fascinating and thought provoking.

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It was compelling listening. The story didn’t over sensationalise. Gripping from start to end. Would recommend

A true story

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Amazing survival story and interesting perspective of the survivors and the families. A must read for anyone who enjoys human triumph over the elements or disaster.

What a phenomenal story of endurance and survival

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Not much more can be said, if you haven’t listened to this then you’re missing out.

Incredible!

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