Miracle in the Andes
72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving first-person account 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—by Nando Parrado, a subject of the Oscar-nominated film Society of the Snow
Featuring a new introduction by the author to commemorate of the fiftieth anniversary of the crash
“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…
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May 15, 2007Vince Rause is a writer and journalist whose stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He is a regular contributor to the Discovery Channel Online.
Miracle in the Andes
Nando Parrado with Vince Rause
Nando Parrado is CEO of four companies in Uruguay and also hosts several popular television programs there, including shows on nature, public affairs, automobiles, and travel. He is one of the most sought-after figures on the international lecture circuit, and has shared the platform with Elizabeth Dole, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Dee Dee Myers, Sam Donaldson, and Dave Barry. Parrado has also won international awards racing motorcycles, sports cars, stock cars, and watercraft. He speaks five languages and travels extensively. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.