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72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Crown
May 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 1400097673
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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, as well as their family
members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had
crashed somewhere deep in the Andes. He soon learned that
many were dead or dying—among them his own mother and
sister. Those who remained were stranded on a lifeless
glacier at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, with no
supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to
endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then
the devastating news that the search for them had been
called off.
As time passed and Nando’s thoughts
turned increasingly to his father, who he knew must be
consumed with grief, Nando resolved that he must get home or
die trying. He would challenge the Andes, even though he was
certain the effort would kill him, telling himself that even
if he failed he would die that much closer to his father. It
was a desperate decision, but it was also his only chance.
So Nando, an ordinary young man with no disposition for
leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous
slopes of a snow-capped mountain and across forty-five miles
of frozen wilderness in an attempt to find help.
Thirty years after the disaster Nando 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.
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