Publisher: | Harper Collins |
Genres: | Nonfiction Books, Adventure Books, History Books |
Authors: | Piers Paul Read |
Pages: | 416 pages |
Binding: | Hardcover |
ISBN10: | 0380003211 |
ISBN13: | 9780380003211 |
Tags: | Nonfiction eBooks, Adventure eBooks, History eBooks, epub eBooks, Free epub |
Language: | en |
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.