Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction)

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To save their own lives, 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? Newsweek On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote, snow-peaked Andes Mountains. We love to contemplate how we could survive until rescue, were we ever to live through a plane crash, yet more often than not, our dreams take us to deserted islands with fresh water and a bounty of fish, not to the frozen mountaintops of South America where our food resources are slim-to-none. We all felt it, inside ourselves, and not because we were the kind of pious youths who are always praying all day long, even though we had a religious education. Two helicopters, one of which has Nando and Canessa on board, appear overhead of the survivors on the mountain, leading the remaining 14 survivors to celebrate their impending rescue.

The dim light grew dimmer still; a few drifted into half-sleep, and their breathing took on a more regular pattern which in its turn lulled others to sleep. Yet just as the book was about to be closed, a hand touched him; he clasped it, and Roy Harley sank a shaft to bring air to his lungs.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. As night set in, the survivors were wet, cramped, and bitterly cold, with no cushions, shoes or blankets to protect them. Nadie les daba por vivos, solamente algunos de sus padres, que querian recuperar, aunque fueran sus cuerpos,con un lucha incansable moviendo cielo y tierra, para poder encontrarlos. The game became linked with the wealthy elite of the cities such as Montevideo, and the Old Christians’ Club team was among the most historical and most famous of all the rugby clubs in Uruguay.

With this knowledge of grief, Rees-Jones assays the life of Helen Thomas, the young widow of the poet Edward Thomas, exploring the complexities of marriage and the relationship between the body, perception and memory in And You, Helen. One other thing I would have liked is to some sort of follow up to tell me what the rest of their lives turned out like, especially the older man who had the 4 kids and the boy whose sister and mother died in the crash (or shortly thereafter).es un libro que te hace sentir todo tipo de emociones desde que ocurre el accidente y todo lo que tienen que hacer para sobrevivir mientras se encuentran atrapados. Roque and Menéndez had been killed by the falling wall, but part of that wall saved the lives of the two others who slept next to it. The survivors] had neither sensationalized nor sentimentalized their own experience and it seemed important for me to tell the reader what they had told me in the same 'matter-of-fact' manner. After all, the very title suggests that some remain alive, yet we don’t know who, we ostensibly don’t know how, and we certainly don’t know how they’re ever make it back to civilization.