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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 Outdoor Inspiring Heartfelt
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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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Moving and motivating

It was lovely to hear Nando and his account. The 1st hand experience and his thought process.

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An amazing first hand account into bravery

I have become a little obsessed with this story and this book has highlighted to me those men saved themselves. An amazing story is survival. 10/10 read!

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What an amazing book

Absolutely awesome. Thank you for your amazing story. I’d love to hear you speak, Nando.

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One man’s viewpoint

It’s brilliant to get to experience the actual thoughts of someone who was on the plane, but this was very skewed to having him be the most important person who made survival for all the others possible.

Was a very nice touch to hear some of the audio in the actual voice of the survivor but I feel that the interview section was pointless as all the questions had already been addressed in the book.

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Best book I have read from audible.

A personal account of how a young man escaped from almost certain death, after a plane crash in the Andes and what he gained from the ordeal. Beatifully written and inspiring.

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Just an amazing story. Gives you a different outlook on life.

I had been interested in the crash on the Andes for quite some time but reading this book has given me a deeper understanding of the events. Absolutely amazing story.

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An excellent listen, highly recomended,an amazing story,well written and told

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It's all about love, how amazing!

So wonderful to hear what happened to everyone. Lots of children born & happy lives continued. Such a relief after the suffering on the mountain. Loved hearing Nando speak.

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Truly a surreal tale of survival and the will to survive

Truly a harrowing disturbing tale of survival and the will to continue.

Unless you were faced with a similar situation you cannot even begin to understand the mental will power to resort to the most primal of human instincts to survive to carry on when most would have given up early on. The sure will of these people is absolutely unbelievable but shows when faced with the poorest odds people can overcome anything if their determination is strong enough

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One of the most uplifting stories I've ever heard

I had already read the physical copy a few years ago, and after watching the amazing "Society of the Snow," I wanted to revisit Nando Parrado's account of the months spent on the Andes after the tragic crash. Beautifully told, tense and full of genuine emotion, while harrowing and difficult to even imagine, the story of the survivors of the 1972 Fairchild crash is one of pure love and devotion. Nando says in the epilogue how everyone has their own personal Andes: mine is OCD. I'm currently in early days of treatment after 20 years of suffering. It's relationship based, and now I look forward to marrying my partner without my brain dictating the rules. Like Nando, I choose to struggle a little longer so I can love even harder. Thank you, Nando, for choosing to retell your story. You and your friends are an inspiration to us all.

For all those still buried in the mountain.

(One star taken off of performance because I was a bit sad Nando didn't narrate the whole thing, but the narration was still good).

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