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038000321X (N) by Read, Piers Paul; & Piers Paul Read is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is 038000321X (N) about?
The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild’s pilot reported their altitude at 15,000 feet. But one minute later, the Santiago control tower lost all contact with the aircraft. For eight days, Chileans, Uruguayans, and Argentinians searched for it, but snowfall in the Andes had been heavy, and the odds of locating any wreckage were slim. Ten weeks later, a Chilean peasant in a remote valley noticed two haggard men desperately gesticulating to him from across a river. He threw them a pen and paper, and the note they tossed back read: “I come from a plane that fell in the mountains . . .” Sixteen of the original forty-five passengers on the F-227 survived its horrific crash. In the remote glacial wilderness, they camped in the plane’s fuselage, where they faced freezing temperatures, lif
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- Author
- Read, Piers Paul; & Piers Paul Read
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781504039123
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Thriller, Action & Adventure
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (12 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
Other editions & translations
- إنهم يعيشون! انتصار الروح الإنسانية [Arabic] (1974)
- Alive : the story of the Andes survivors (1974)
- Alive : the story of the Andes survivors (2016)
- ¡Viven! El triunfo del espíritu humano (2023)
- Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction) (2002)
- ¡Viven! : la tragedia de los Andes (2010)
- Les survivants / trad. de l'anglais par Marcel Schneider (1993)
- Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Avon Nonfiction) (1974)
- Alive : sixteen men, seventy-two days, and insurmountable odds{u2014} the classic adventure of survival in the Andes (2005)
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