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  2. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors - Wikipedia

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    Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College ), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived 72 days of sub-zero temperatures.

  3. Hugh Glass - Wikipedia

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    Hugh Glass ( c. 1783 – 1833) [1] [2] [3] was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being left for dead by companions when he was mauled by a grizzly bear . No records exist regarding his origins but he is widely said to have been born in ...

  4. Yossi Ghinsberg - Wikipedia

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    Yossi Ghinsberg. Yossi Ghinsberg speaking in 2016. Yosseph "Yossi" Ghinsberg ( Hebrew: יוסי גינסברג; born 5 April 1959) is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia. [1] Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story in an uncharted part of the Bolivian ...

  5. Skeletons on the Zahara - Wikipedia

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    368 pp (first edition, hardcover) ISBN. 978-0-316-83514-5. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival is a 2004 nonfiction book written by maritime historian Dean King. [1] [2] It is based on two of the survivors' journals, primarily Captain James Riley 's memoir Sufferings in Africa. [3] [4] To research the book, Dean King embarked on a ...

  6. True-Life Adventures - Wikipedia

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    True-Life Adventures is a series of short and full-length nature documentary films released by Walt Disney Studios between the years 1948 and 1960. [1] The first seven films released were thirty-minute shorts, with the subsequent seven films being full features. The series won eight Academy Awards for the studio, including five for Best Two ...

  7. Aron Ralston - Wikipedia

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    Aron Ralston. Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker, known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off part of his own right arm. On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah, he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist ...

  8. I Shouldn't Be Alive - Wikipedia

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    24 February 2012. ( 2012-02-24) I Shouldn't Be Alive is a documentary television series made by Darlow Smithson Productions, a UK-based production company, that featured accounts of individuals or groups caught in life-threatening scenarios away from civilization in natural environments. The show aired on multiple networks in the United States ...

  9. Unbroken (book) - Wikipedia

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    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is a biography of World War II veteran Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific Theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) in three Japanese POW ...

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