Alive Survivors Look Back

It's one of the 20th century's greatest survival epics: A plane crashes high in the Andes leaving 32 people stranded with little food except the bodies of the dead. As even that supply dwindles, three survivors embark on an impossible journey to find help.

This timeless survival story spurred the book and film Alive. In April 2006, we published Contributing Editor James Vlahos's account of the first retracing of the escape route used in 1972 by Uruguayan rugby players Roberto Canessa, Nando Parrado, and Antonio Vizintín two months after their Fairchild 571 crashed in the Andes. Online, see a 3-D escape route map, photo gallery, and, most poignant, hear audio from the survivors themselves as they reflect on their ordeal.

“I was seeing how my friends were melting and vanishing and getting weaker. The fuselage was getting very depressing and miserable," says Canessa. "I felt it was much more pure to die walking in the snow… . I had the idea that I would walk to the last bit of energy that I had." (Listen to the audio clip >>)

These remarkable people had the clarity of mind and perseverance to survive the most unbelievable circumstances. Their actions embody the "rules of survival" that Laurence Gonzales defines in his new Deep Survival column. It's worth listening to their insights.

Comments

[David Ng]

Great!
http://www.worldmatetravel.com/
http://www.worldmatetravel.com/destinations-guide.html
http://www.worldmatetravel.com/vietnam-tours.html
http://www.worldmatetravel.com/hanoi-tours.html
http://www.worldmatetravel.com/saigon-tours.html
http://www.worldmatetravel.com/indochina-tours.html
http://www.worldmatetravel.com/laos-tours.html
http://www.worldmatetravel.com/cambodia-tours.html

[online payday loans]

The compact grill looks like a winner, but how do you get all of the muck off of it when you want to gather your gear and move out?

[online payday loans]

The glassy aquamarine waters turned a churning brown and we were forced to move back from the stream bed. Monsoon rains in the Grand Canyon are nothing to mess around with.

[Best Microwave Oven 2011]

This is nice for survival story, Thanks for sharing this info.

[Oil painting art]

This adventure was a dangerous one.

[adventure tours]

I really was inspired. it shows that people will do anything and god was watching over them.

[annonomus]

i saw the movie and it was great. i really was inspired. it shows that people will do anything and god was watching over them. =]]

[Survival Topics]

I read this book when I was 13-years old - inspirational tale of endurance.