Nando Parrado was one of the survivors of the 1972 plane crash that killed his mother, his younger sister, and many of his rugby teammates. Nando survived in the Andes for seventy-day days, including a ten-day trek through the mountains with his friend Roberto Canessa to find help. Following their rescue, Nando and other survivors worked with Piers Paul Read to write the #1 bestseller Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. Twenty years later, Nando served as the technical advisor in the film adaptation, in which he was played by Ethan Hawke. In 2006, he published his own version of events in Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home. Today, he is a renowned speaker and successful businessman, sportsman, and television producer. He and his wife, Veronique, have two daughters, Veronica and Cecilia, and three grandchildren: Alexia, Máximo, and Thor.
“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 for 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 Under the Banner of Heaven, Into
Thin Air, and Into the Wild
“Unlike the cloud that obscured the mountainside, there is no haze
enshrouding the meaning of life for Nando Parrado. It was in the
love for his father that Nando found the motivation to survive for
over two months on a Chilean glacier. As he makes his unbelievable
traverse of the Andes, Nando also demonstrates the depth of his
courage, faith, and perseverance that help him later transform his
losses into a source of inspiration for others. Connecting our
struggles to his, we readers can use Nando as our beacon and see
that there is a way out of our ‘own personal Andes.’” —Aron
Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place
“Nando Parrado’s haunting experience in the Andes—grippingly,
honestly, and insightfully told—ranks with the most dramatic
survival stories of the last two centuries.” —Peter Stark, author
of Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure
“Miracle in the Andes is an extraordinary book. Everybody’s
philosophical hypotheticals were Nando Parrado’s real life
experiences. Would I survive an aircrash? Could I eat human flesh?
Would a horrific and life-threatening event affect my religious
beliefs? In the end, this account benefits enormously from the
maturity that time allows. It is a beautifully written and moving
story.” —Peter Hillary, author of In the Ghost Country: A Lifetime
Spent on the Edge
“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
Adult/High School-In 1972, Parrado and his rugby teammates from Uruguay were flying to Chile to play a match against the national team. Crossing the Andes, the aircraft crashed on a remote, high-altitude, glaciated slope. This remarkable story of the survivors omits none of the raw intensity and brutality of their experience but is burnished by time, casting an analytical perspective on ways in which their subsequent lives were influenced by the ordeal. The many forms of courage exhibited and the sustaining power of love of family are the basis of the narrative as the group supported one another in a collective "refusal to surrender to the mountain." Parrado credits their physical conditioning and the rigorous team ethic inherent in the sport as the foundation for the trust and allegiance that enabled the men to battle the odds. Reduced to the most elemental human needs and learning from a radio transmission that rescue efforts had been abandoned, they reluctantly realized that their only food source was the bodies of the victims. Parrado was respectful of the spiritual faith of those who clung to a belief in rescue, but put his energy into engineering a plan and acted as a leader of the "expeditionaries" who hiked through the perilous mountains to find help. A detailed chronicle of these events was presented in Piers Paul Read's Alive (Avon, 1975), but Parrado's memoir offers a reflective expansion of that work. Dramatic photographs are included.-Lynn Nutwell, Fairfax City Regional Library, VA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
In October 1972, a plane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Not immediately rescued, the survivors turned to cannibalism to survive and after 72 days were saved. Rugby team member Parrado has written a beautiful story of friendship, tragedy and perseverance. High in the Andes, with a fractured skull, eating the flesh of his teammates and friends, Parrado calmly ponders the cruelties of fate, the power of the natural world and the possibility of continued existence. "I would live from moment to moment and from breath to breath, until I had used up all the life I had." Parrado, who for the past 10 years has been giving inspirational talks based on his experiences, lost his mother and sister in the crash. Struggling to stay alive, his guide becomes his beloved father: "each [stride] brought me closer to my father... each step I took was a step stolen back from death." More than a companion to the 1970s bestselling chronicle of the disaster, Alive, this is a fresh, gripping page-turner that will satisfy adventure readers, and a complex reflection on camaraderie, family and love. Photos. First serial in Outside. (May 9) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
"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 for 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 Under the Banner of
Heaven, Into Thin Air, and Into the Wild
"Unlike the cloud that obscured the mountainside, there is no haze
enshrouding the meaning of life for Nando Parrado. It was in the
love for his father that Nando found the motivation to survive for
over two months on a Chilean glacier. As he makes his unbelievable
traverse of the Andes, Nando also demonstrates the depth of his
courage, faith, and perseverance that help him later transform his
losses into a source of inspiration for others. Connecting our
struggles to his, we readers can use Nando as our beacon and see
that there is a way out of our 'own personal Andes.'" -Aron
Ralston, author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place
"Nando Parrado's haunting experience in the Andes-grippingly,
honestly, and insightfully told-ranks with the most dramatic
survival stories of the last two centuries." -Peter Stark, author
of Last Breath: The Limits of Adventure
"Miracle in the Andes is an extraordinary book. Everybody's
philosophical hypotheticals were Nando Parrado's real life
experiences. Would I survive an aircrash? Could I eat human flesh?
Would a horrific and life-threatening event affect my religious
beliefs? In the end, this account benefits enormously from the
maturity that time allows. It is a beautifully written and moving
story." -Peter Hillary, author of In the Ghost Country: A
Lifetime Spent on the Edge
"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
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