Alive Alive, by Piers Paul Read, is the story of how a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends who survived for ten weeks in the Andes after their chartered plane to Chile crashed. The plane took off on October 12, 1972, from Montevideo for Santiago. Reports of bad weather in the Andes brought the plane down in Mendoza, a small Argentinean town close to the Andes. The boys were disappointed; however, the next day the weather cleared …showed first 75 words of 1127 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1127 total…no past experiences to draw on and therefore can make only vague guess as to their thoughts. This cannot be blamed on the author, though, because he admits that it lacks an accurate depiction of their thoughts but explains it in this way, "It was never my intention to underestimate these qualities, but perhaps it would be beyond the skill of any writer to express their [the survivors] own appreciation of what they lived through."