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Viven! El Triunfo Del Espiritu Humano (Spanish Edition)

En el ano 1972 partio de Montevideo, con destino Santiago de Chile, un avion Fairchild F227 de las fuerzas aereas uruguayas en el que viajaba un equipo de rugby y sus acompanantes. Pero en realidad les aguardaba un destino muy distinto del que ellos habian proyectado. Las infernales condiciones climatologicas determinaron la catastrofe, y el aparato se estrello en Los Andes. Solo dieciseis de los cuarenta y cinco pasajeros que viajaban en el avion sobrevivieron al accidente y a los casi tres meses de indescriptibles rigores que compartieron con el hambre, el frio y el dolor. Sin otras provisiones, se vieron obligados a enfrentarse al horror de alimentarse con la carne de sus companeros muertos, en un acto desesperado por conservar la vida. Viven! Relata con toda suerte de detalles esta escalofriante peripecia y la de los familiares que en ningun momento dejaron de buscarlos. / On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. And to survive, they were forced to do the unthinkable... This is their story, one of the most astonishing adventures of the twentieth century.

Paperback: 448 pages

Publisher: Ediciones B (May 31, 2016)

Language: Spanish

ISBN-10: 8490702365

ISBN-13: 978-8490702369

Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1 x 8.4 inches

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Time has not diminished the drama of the tale of the Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes Mountains. Of the forty five people on the plane at the time of the crash, sixteen came down from the mountain about seventy days later with a saga of survival not easily forgotten.Theirs is a journey born of tragedy and human endurance. The author unfolds a tale that is gripping in the telling, as enthralling as it is almost unbelievable. It is investigative reporting at its best, because it does not fail to convey the human drama and pathos behind the story of this remarkable struggle for survival high up in the Andes Mountains. Masterfully written, it is a well balanced narrative that takes great pains to ground the experience of the survivors in the context out of which it arose.The plane had crashed in the Andes Mountains on Argentinian territory. It was an exercise in terror for those on the plane, as it barreled down the mountain, before finally coming to rest in a valley of snow high up in the Andes. Of the forty five persons on board, thirty two had initially survived the crash. Some, however, had sustained serious injuries. Time would not be their friend. Moreover, with little warm clothing (keep in mind that October is springtime in South America), the survivors were exposed to the extreme cold of the night air, high up in the Andes. Though spring, this still meant temperatures well below freezing. Damp, cold, and hungry, amid the anguished cries of the injured, thus began the first of many such nights.By their tenth day in the Andes, the limited food supplies, which they had rationed with all the care of a miser, had virtually run out. Starving and ravenously hungry, they voiced what they all knew to be true, but had not dared to voice before.

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