Roberto Canessa on I Had to Survive at the 2016 National Book Festival

Roberto Canessa discusses “I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives” at the 2016 National Book Festival. FROM THE PUBLISHER: On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the “Old Christians” rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one o