Name: Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and my Long Trek Home (in English)
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Author: Nando Parrado
ISBN: 9781400097692

portada Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and my Long Trek Home (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nando Parrado

Vince Rause

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

291

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.0 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.27 kg.

ISBN

140009769X

ISBN13

9781400097692

Edition No.

Synopsis "Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and my Long Trek Home (in English)"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes--and one man's quest to lead them all home--now in a special edition for 2022, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the crash, featuring a new introduction by the author "In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took--and what it actually felt like--to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead."--Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild "In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence." Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father's grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to save his friends' lives as well as his own. Decades after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. Miracle in the Andes, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.

Nando Parrado

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Fernando Seler Parrado Dolgay, también conocido como Nando Parrado, nació en Montevideo (Uruguay) el 9 de diciembre de 1949. Es uno de los sobrevivientes del accidente aéreo en la cordillera y al igual que varios de ellos, era un antiguo alumno del colegio Stella Maris y jugaba al rugby en el equipo Rugby Old Christians Club. En el momento del accidente Nando Parrado era un estudiante universitario y tenía 22 años (celebró su 23º cumpleaños en los Andes). Dedicó algunos años al automovilismo y luego se dedicó a ser presentador y productor de televisión y dar charlas motivacionales, las que hasta el día de hoy sigue realizando.

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