Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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- ISBN13: 9781400097692
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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In the first hours there was nothing, no dread or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.
Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to learn that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family tree 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. Persons 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 suffer 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 choice, 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 tale 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 right-life adventure: it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of like.
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“Miracle in the Andes” is a phenomenal and awe inspiring tale of the human spirit, like, and ultimately of faith. As everyone else who has reviewed this book above, I too, have followed this tale for years and have nothing but admiration, praise, and respect for Nando Parrado, for ALL the additional fifteen survivors, and for persons who corroded. They turned what was a tragedy into a miracle.
The only thing I have to add to all of the additional reviews is, that when you read this book, your faith in God will be even more strengthened and inspire you to live every minute of the rest of your life with like, hope, and courage. If you don’t judge in God, read this book and, I promise you, you will meet Him throughout every page in the many miracles that take place out of the many hopeless tragedies. Whether Nando Parrado sees it or not, the presence of God is felt and described by the leader all over his book and helped give them all the might to survive and get out of persons mountains. For persons who died straight away and persons who were too seriously injured or weak to survive, God gave them peace in Heaven. For persons who were still alive, God gave each of them the might and courage to suffer and the like and hope to find a way home. Thank God they survived, not only for their own lives and for their families, but to tell the world this incredible tale and happening of a right miracle from a seemingly hopeless tragedy.
This book is about one of the most inspirational tales of human courage and of God’s miracles of faith, hope, and like you will ever read. My life is so much more enriched from reading Nando Parrado’s perfectly written book.
Let’s all learn and like from our own Andes, as Nando suggests.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I was very pleased to receive the item in the condition described and to receive it so quickly.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book means a fantastic deal to me. I have bought several copies so I can share it with my friends. It deeply affects everyone who reads it.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a stunning re-telling of the tale of the rugby team, and one individual in particular whose plane went down in the Andes so many years ago. Many of us have read the book “Alive” which was published before long after the incident, so we know the tale. But this telling is so much more, because it shows the evolution of the leader’s point of view during his suffering.
The most chilling part of the tale was not the consumption of the dead, but rather the hike out of the Andes. Persons mountains become a living character as well.
Before long after reading this book my spouse and I had dinner at a local Massachusetts restaurant where our two waiters were from Uraguay. One of them had been a waiter at the Uraguayan restaurant where the teammates dine on the anniversary of their rescue. That made me feel an even greater tie to these extraordinary men.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Reading “Miracle in the Andes”(on an airplane, no less) I establish myself shaking, with tears running down my cheeks. Simply the most powerful book I have ever read. (The lady across the aisle was struggling not to look! I’m sure she wondered, “What is the title of this book!?!”)
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5