On Oct 12, 1972, a airplane carrying a group of young rugby players crashed into the remote control, snow-peaked Andes. From the forty-five first passengers and team, only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks, they experienced deprivations beyond imagining, confronting character head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. Also to survive,these men and women not only needed to maintain their faith, they had to create an difficult decision: Should they consume the flesh of their inactive friends? An extraordinary story of endurance and determination, Alive may be the dramatic bestselling accounts of one of the very most harrowing quests for success in modern times.