Alive - The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read

Open Road Media

2016

377 páginas

12h 34m

ISBN-13: 9781504039123

Português Brasileiro

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, life-threatening injuries, an avalanche, and imminent starvation. As their meager food supplies ran out, and after they heard on a patched-together radio that the search parties had been called off, it seemed like all hope was lost. 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?

A remarkable story of endurance and determination, friendship and the human spirit, Alive is the dramatic bestselling account of one of the most harrowing quests for survival in modern times.

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Recentemente vi que no ano anterior uma plataforma de streaming lançou um filme sobre um acidente de avião na Cordilheira dos Andes. E, sem muitas expectativas, assisti ao longa-metragem e de repente, me vi obcecada por essa história.
Como esses rapazes conseguiram sobreviver no meio da neve? Como eles foram capazes de controlar os sentimentos de raiva, fúria, frustração, medo, tristeza, abandono, entre outros sentimentos negativos, para se organizarem tão bem a ponto de conseguirem sobreviver num lugar inabitável?
Imediatamente fui à procura dos livros! Esse livro relata o ponto de vista de todos os sobreviventes, com a história sendo escrita por um autor britânico (que tem uma escrita muito intrigante!).
Meu conselho é: se você é muito sensível para tragédias, sangue, acidente, e outros tópicos bem desagradáveis, não leia! Esse livro não é pra qualquer um; você tem que ter estômago pra isso e estar preparado pra isso!
Imergi tanto nessa história que parecia que eu estava visualizando o caos que eles viveram na minha frente. Até agora, para mim, esse é o melhor livro sobre esse acidente aéreo.