Nando Parrado

Vince Rause

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. Parrado's unique viewpoint brings a new perspective to this remarkable story. His hugely inspirational tale shows how the strength of the human spirit, the close bond of friendship and faith can make you achieve the impossible. He explains how, once you realise that you must surely die, no risk becomes too great. Above all, Parrado came to understand that the opposite of death wasn't life, but love. And it was love, for his waiting father and the mother and sister who died in the crash, that saw him home.

72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

Miracle in the Andes

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.

A survivor of the horrific 1972 plane crash that stranded his rugby team in the Andes for seventy-two days provides his account of the ordeal and of his desperate expedition across seventy miles of frozen wilderness to find help.

mis 72 días en la montan̋a y mi largo regreso a casa

Milagro en los Andes

C'est un vendredi 13, en 1972, que le Fairchild F-227 qui transportait une équipe de rugbymen uruguayens s'écrasait dans les Andes. Cet accident allait donner naissance à une légende. Soixante-douze jours durant, les survivants de ce crash vécurent sur un glacier à 3500 mètres d'altitude, au milieu des cadavres et des débris de la carlingue. Seuls au monde, ils luttèrent contre le froid et le désespoir - n'ayant bientôt d'autre choix que de manger la chair de leurs compagnons morts. De cet épisode - dont le journaliste Piers Paul Read tira un ouvrage qui émut le monde entier - il nous manquait, à ce jour, le récit d'un survivant. Et c'est ce récit que Nando Parrado, après s'y être refusé pendant plus de trente ans, vient d'écrire. Une extraordinaire leçon de courage.

72 jours dans les montagnes et ma longue marche pour rentrer

Miracle dans les Andes

Miracle in the Andes mengisahkan perjuangan tim rugby Uruguay dalam mempertahankan diri di bekunya Pegunungan Andes. Nando Parrado dan timnya tengah melakukan perjalanan untuk pertandingan persahabatan di Argentina. Akibat cuaca buruk, pesawat carteran yang mereka tumpangi jatuh di tengah Andes. Dari 45 penumpang, hanya 32 yang masih hidup akibat jatuhnya Fairchild. Semakin lama, akibat luka serius dan longsoran salju, korban bertambah banyak hingga tinggal 16 survivors saja. Semangat mereka menjadi setipis udara Andes ketika mendengar dari radio Fairchild bahwa pencarian telah dihentikan. Dalam memoar ini, Nando menunjukkan bahwa besarnya cinta dan kegigihan dapat membuat miracle is achievable. [Mizan, C Publishing, Novel, Indonesia]

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