Has anyone read this? It’s by Paul Piers Read, was published in the 1970s. i first read this book some years ago, and i re-read it about once a year. Once in a blue moon, you come across a book that changes some of your perspectives on life, forces you to re-evaluate how you see yourself and how you see “life” in general. For me, this book is one of them.
i’ve taken the following from the official website. Their first tongue is Spanish so keep in mind the English written on this website is not that eloquent, hardly that surprising considering their mother tongue isn’t English. It’s based upon an actual event in 1972:
These were rugby players, most of them in their 20s, all of them considered the cream of the sports crop due to their athletic abilities. Young, healthy, rational, men - not sure if they were going to survive in the -30 weather of the Andes mountains. The situation they were in almost forced them to become religious in a way they had never previously been. i think most of them were Protestants or Catholics. The book shows you how they went through their own inner struggle dealing with cannibalism (against their religion). Parts of the book that i can’t forget are how they took care of the weakest amongst them (giving the physically-weakest guy the warmest spot in the fuselage of the broken plane), rationing supplies, trying to repair the radio so they could establish contact, celebrating each other’s birthdays in the plane, and finally - setting out to cross the Andes mountains in the hopes of finding a village where they could finally let the world know that some of them were still alive.
It’s an amazing book… you guys have to read it. It will change how you take things in life, for granted… at least it did for me.
this reminds me about the book about a guy who got lost or stuck in nepal while hiking. i think it was because of snow. there was no chance of surviving so after i think one week of ebing frozen he decided to kill him self by not drinking water. i think by the fifth day of not drinking water he was found. :p
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*Originally posted by M: *
Ive seen the film, didnt move me, so I had to sit there and watch it through. :p
Actually interesting story and scary, but I doubt Id be reading the book anytime soon.
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Me too. Watched the movie on that story. The film was ok. Not extraordinary. It could have been better. I think the book must be better then the movie.