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

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After a night camping in the cold, they realize that they will die if they spend too much time exposed to the elements.

The harvesting of human meat becomes another daily chore, like melting snow for water or keeping the inside of the wreckage clean. With the help of numerous interviews, the author was able to provide a detailed account of the events that took place over the course of those few weeks along the icy mountainside.One night, an avalanche buries many of the people sleeping inside the wreckage, and the survivors fail to dig everyone out in time. He felt himself near to death, yet the knowledge that after his death his body would help the others to survive instilled in him a kind of ecstasy. Esto es solo mi opinión y mis preferencias, claro, pero Viven cumple con todo eso y precisamente por ese motivo creo que es un libro sobresaliente en todos los sentidos: no solo por lo que cuenta si no por como lo cuenta. It was this that helped us to survive, and now we do not want this--which was something intimate, intimate--to be hackneyed or touched or anything like that. There is nothing quite like the persistence of human achievement, and these stories speak to my adventurous soul.

It's really hard for me to believe that Read was only thirty-one years old when he was selected for this great project, even though he'd previously only written fictional novels.He also questioned the realism of how normal the actors' bodies looked after portraying two months of near-starvation. But just like in our world today, as long as we, as a collective, put our minds to something, anything and everything can be accomplished and overcome—even when all hope is lost. The writing is done with sensitivity and compassion, even though the subject matter is quite disheartening. Many would have liked to give him a better time on his birthday, but instead it was he who improved their spirits.