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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
Nando Parrado regained consciousness to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as family members and supporters, had crashed deep in the Andes. Many were dead or dying, among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a glacier at nearly 12,000 feet, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search...
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Throughout history, the most harrowing stories of human survival, like that of the Donner Party in the 1840s, have involved people whose only means of staying alive was to cannibalize the deceased around them. On Friday the 13th of October, 1972, just such a story began when a charter plane carrying 45 rugby team members crashed in the remote Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. But what 16 survivors endured was far worse...
6) Alive
Pub. Date
p1993
Description
A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
7) Yo tenía que sobrevivir: como un accidente aéreo en los Andes inspiró mi vocación para salvar vidas
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the "Old Christians" rugby team--and many of their friends and family members--crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardiologists. As he tended to his wounded teammates amidst the devastating...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A survivor of the infamous 1972 plane crash in the Andes that inspired the film Alive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled him to become one of the worlds leading pediatric cardiologists. On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the "Old Christians" rugby team-and many of their friends and family members-crashed into the Andes mountains. Sixteen survivors...