how many leaders, management homework help

Class, please consider the Andes mountain crash (http://www.alpineexpeditions.net/the-story-of-the-andes-survivors.html), when reviewing the conditions of which the survivors endured; how many leaders do you think it took to make things come into play. What if one leader or the main leader became ill or tired or did not survive in the avalanche; was a leader appointed by the group or self-appointed out of confidence?

Without reading the book Alive, how would you expect leadership to have come into play?

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