Piers Paul Read

Alive

1. IDEA 1

   A plane crashed in the Andes

   Read tells the story of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and family. Many died in the crash, and the survivors were stranded in freezing snow.

2. IDEA 2

   Survivors faced cold and hunger

   The survivors had little food and no warm clothing. They used the plane's wreck as shelter. Read describes how the freezing mountain air made every day a fight to stay alive until help could come.

3. IDEA 3

   They learned the search had ended

   Through a radio, the survivors learned that the search for them had been called off. They realised they had to save themselves. Read shows that hearing this news changed their hope into a hard decision to act.

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