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Alive : Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--the Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes (P.S.) (Reprint Edition) by Piers Paul Read Paperback, 398 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-06-077866-0 / 0060778660 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-077866-8 / 9780060778668 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 fo |