While the pilot was strong and persevered after the accident, helping his passenger despite both being badly injured, it turned out he was uninsured as well as being unable to fly by instruments and flew into bad weather. It just seemed so irresponsible and unprofessional that doing everything he could to mitigate This is the true story of an inexperienced pilot and his 21 year old female passenger who crash landed in the winter heading out from Alaska with an ultimate destination of California. This is the true story of an inexperienced pilot and his 21 year old female passenger who crash landed in the winter heading out from Alaska with an ultimate destination of California. Kind of makes you feel a little guilty and overly blessed don't you think? But other than that the book was great.more It's just sometimes hard to read about people not having any food for 2 months and rationing toothpaste to save for a couple meals. The one thing I didn't like about the book is just that it made me feel kind of gluttonous and guilty. I have food, water, a house and a family that loves me- I really have nothing to complain about. It's such a fascinating story and I really took some good points from it, like to not take things for granted (food, water, heat) and also it just made me want to be a better person in general (Helen spent a lot of time reading the Ten Commandments including to "love thy neighbor" and etc.) It also made me realize how trivial my problems are. The one thing I didn't like about I really liked this book. Nice story with a super happy ending.more
HEY HEY I AM ALIVE SONG MOVIE
The movie adaptation had Ed Asher and Sally Struthers snarling at each other in reality, Helen and Ralph grew a lot from knowing each other and nobody ever screamed, as much as they might have liked to. The fact that they never got ugly about their religious differences astounds me - it was the elephant in the room all through their ordeal. She and Ralph Flores should stand as a model of the kind of cooperation and mutual support it takes to get through a tough situation like this. At Ralph's urging she read his Bible all the way through while they were waiting for rescue and allowed it to change her thinking. Helen used this experience to completely rethink her relationship to life. I saw the movie version years ago but the book was completely different, largely because of the religious themes.
She and her pilot, Ralph Flores, survived for 49 days despite some nasty-sounding injuries, temps close to 50 degrees below zero, and no survival supplies of any kind. At Ralph's urging s This was a short, sweet, uplifting read about Helen Klaben's experience surviving a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness.
This was a short, sweet, uplifting read about Helen Klaben's experience surviving a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness.