Author: Piers Paul Read Publisher: Sperling Paperback Pages: 361 A huge best-seller, brought in a new edition. The true story of a tragedy that has disturbed and shocked the world. In October 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan team of rugby players and twenty-five friends and relatives crashed in the Andes. Passengers, thirty-two survived. In the chill of the mountains, without appropriate clothing and virtually no food, the survivors had to quickly take the most terrible decisions: feed the flesh of friends, relatives, friends dead. A shocking choice that others made even more excruciating ordeals. Until, after weeks of hardship and further losses, two of them, Roberto Canessa and Nando Parrado, took groped for broke and went looking for help. The courage of these men were eventually rewarded, and in December, a shipment of relief unless placed in the fourteen passengers who had until then resisted. A book dramatic, moving, enriched this edition with new, amazing pictures and a guide of great interest recently, in fact, thanks to the support of the National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council, an expedition has traced and retraced the arduous, grueling road to the salvation of Canessa and Parrado. Adventure, here documented by photos and text, still full of difficulties and extremely hard, which highlights the exceptional company then carried by the two survivors
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