Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

by Piers Paul Read

Their life was one, on the mountain as it had been in Montevideo, and in these desperate conditions the bond between them held fast. Even sorrow was a part of that bond, and when they talked together of the four children they might never see again, tears not only of sadness but of joy fell down their cheeks, for what they missed now showed them what they had had.