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  • Alive

  • The Story of the Andes Survivors
  • By: Piers Paul Read
  • Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
  • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (207 ratings)

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Alive

By: Piers Paul Read
Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
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Summary

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
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Great story!

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.

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very bleak, but astonishing

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.

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Brilliant

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

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Survival

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

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Mental story..

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.

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Fascinating and thought provoking.

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

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A true story

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

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truly amazing story

amazing story some great people here brave and strong willing to stay alive amazing

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Very good, but a bit too casual?

I really enjoyed this book. After watching the recent movie adaption, Society of the Snow, I really wanted to learn more about this tragedy. While very very factual, and narrated very well, my only complaint was the blasé way in which events were described. A quite dry historical fact based point-by-point summary of the boys struggles.

It would have felt better with more testimony of the survivors of how they felt during certain events. I appreciated that the events were not exaggerated or hammed up for drama, but at the same time the boys came off rather sociopathic due to the lack of emotion conveyed by the author in the report style writing.

Overall I highly reccomend though, for anyone morbidly curious to know more about this story, I can highly recommend.

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What a phenomenal story of endurance and survival

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.

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