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  1. Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972.

    • Piers Paul Read
    • 1974
  2. Alive is a nonfiction book published in 1974 by the British author Piers Paul Read. It is based on the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. The stranded men resorted to cannibalism to survive. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993.

  3. In this book Piers Paul Read documents in precise detail how everything unfolded for the survivors, from the airplane crash on October 13, until they were rescued, 72 days later. This was a gruesome story, reading about every little thing that transpired within the crash site.

    • (78.6K)
    • Paperback
    • Piers Paul Read
  4. Alive is the story of an airplane crash over the Andes mountains. It is also a narrative of survival and resilience and a story of how the survivors find their way back into society. At the beginning of the story, the flight had forty-five people.

    • Piers Paul Read
  5. Alive is the story of an airplane flight that crashed over the Andes mountains. It is also the story of how some of the stranded passengers survived following the crash and their reintegration into the society they left behind.

  6. “It’s like Holy Communion. When Christ died he gave his body to us so that we could have spiritual life. My friend has given us his body so that we can have physical life.” ― Piers Paul Read, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

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  8. 1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on earth. ABANDONED. Almost three months later, two of the survivors, emaciated and frozen, reach the authorities and lead a rescue team to the remaining fourteen passengers. ALIVE.

    • Piers Paul Read
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