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Miracle in the Andes

72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

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Miracle in the Andes

By: Nando Parrado
Narrated by: Josh Davis, Nando Parrado
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 On 13 October 1972, the members of a top Uruguayan rugby team were flying over the Andes to play in Chile. Their plane crashed into a mountain and was stranded 11,000 feet up on an inhospitable glacier. Many died instantly in the crash, including the person sitting next to Nando, but others survived. They had almost no food or suitable equipment to withstand temperatures as low as -35C, and had to eat the bodies of their dead team-mates to survive. With the prospect only of a slow death, and no rescue likely, Nando and one of his friends set off on an impossible journey, walking and climbing for ten days in search of help. Finally, after 72 days, the 16 survivors were brought to safety.©2006 Nando Parrado (P)2006 Orion Publishing Group Ltd. Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Climbing & Mountaineering Outdoors & Nature Survival Sports

Critic Reviews

Given up for dead after an air crash in the Andes in 1972, Nando Parrado not only survived but showed the strength and determination that saved his own life and that of his fifteen friends. Now he gives his own account of his ordeal -enthralling, enlightening, modest, and moving. An impressive testimony to what love can achieve (Piers Paul Read, author of Alive)
Miracle in the Andes is an astonishing account of an unimaginable ordeal. In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took - and what it actually felt like - to survive high in the Andes 72 days after having been given up for dead. If you pick this book up, you will not be able to put it down (Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air)
Fantastic - it's the most emotional book I've ever read (Sir Jackie Stewart)
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Absolutely amazing survivor story and the depth & strength a human can go to if they want to fight to live, wonderfully narrated and great detail.

Amazing survivor story

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An amazing true account of a real life event. It was particularly interesting amidst so much else to have the difference between a documentary and then Nanndo',s account of the humanity associated with the ordeal

A must listen

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What a privilege to listen to an actual survivor of this awful ordeal. Such insight and wisdom woven in with his incredible story. Thank you

A must!

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A must listen to account of how to accept adversity and continue living a meaningful life

Fantastic!

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This book has made its way into my top 5. The story is so beyond incredible, devastating, heartwarming, inspiring. The list goes on. It really has changed my perspective on life. The narration is excellent.

This book is one of my favourites ever

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