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Miracle in The Andes

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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 t...more

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Dec 07, 2012 Linds rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1970s, 5-star-2012-read, inspirational, memoir, movies, non-fiction, read-in-2012, south-america, survival, tough-guy

Why bother reading Nando Parrado's book if you have already read 'Alive' right? After all, that book was written right after the event with extensive interviews with the 16 survivors and offers an accurate and detailed account of the events of that tragic crash sight portrayed in the 1993 Ethan Hawke movie 'Alive'?

WRONG! This book is simply amazing. Written thirty years after the crash Nando ruminates and expresses his emotions about those awful 72 days. There are many interesting points he brin...more

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Feb 24, 2008 Jimcgold rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone interested in life's perspectives

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This was one of the most amazing survival stories I've ever read. What is most incredible is to listen to the author, in his own tone of voice, articulate the philosophy, values and behavior of this airplane accident high in the Andes. And then, from a perspective of over 30 years, hear him describe what he has learned and what is important to him. Lessons for us all.

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Jun 03, 2008 Savvy rated it 5 of 5 stars

A staggering story....Intense and Incredible!

When my book club chose this book, I honestly wasn't looking forward to reading it. I had read ALIVE and thought I already knew the story, as it had been told in detail.
Boy, was I blown away! What an amazing surprise MIRACLE IN THE ANDES turned out to be!

Nanado Parrado very skillfully and gently takes you into those mountains with such vivid images and heartbreaking exchanges of dialogue, that you 'feel' the immense cold, your stomach actually chur...more

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Jul 16, 2008 Alicen rated it 5 of 5 stars

AMAZING! I was somewhat taken by surprise by this book, which is the story of the personal account of the one survivors of the Andes plane crash in 1974. The author was an untested and somewhat spoiled young man in his 20's when his plane crashed in the mountains and he and his rugby teammates were left for dead. Their story was also told in "Alive", which is also a great book, but this story is less about the details of the crash and more about the author's personal journal out of the mountains...more

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Jun 23, 2008 Jeremy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Amazing! A first-hand account of the famous rugby team crash in the Andes in 1972. If you like what I call the Krakauer genre--you'll love this one! Very insightful! What goes through your mind when you realize you've survived a crash--but the search crews have given up and there is no way out of the mountains? How about the thought process behind the decision to eat the frozen flesh of your dead friends? This is one of the more powerful books I've read in a while. Stark look into the depths of...more

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May 19, 2008 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone

This book is a personal narrative written by a survivor of the 1972 plane crash into the Andes. This event was already well recorded in the book "Alive" and the movie with the same name. What you get: a very moving and personal story of surviving. Parrado lost his mother in the crash, had his sister dies in his arms and proceeded to after 60 days of fighting for his life, walked out of the Andes (with another survivor)to save himself and his fellow survivors. And it is moving and uplifting.

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Jan 29, 2013 Bayu Nurcahyo rated it 5 of 5 stars

Judul : Miracle in the Andes : 72 Hari Tanpa Makanan Dan Perjalanan Pulang Yang Panjang

Penulis : Nando Parrado & Vince Rause

Penerbit : C-Publishing

Tahun Terbit : 2007

Jumlah Halaman : 372

Aku tidak ingat persis kata-kata yang diucapkan penyiar radio itu, tapi aku tidak akan pernah melupakan ketenangan nada bicaranya. Selama sepuluh hari pencarian yang sia-sia, ia berkata, para petugas Chile telah mengerahkan semua upaya untuk menemukan pesawat terbang sewaan dari Uruguay yang hilang di wila...more

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Dec 10, 2012 Megan Clark added it

I think the authors purpose in writing this book was to tell about the time when he was on a plane crossing the Andes Mountains and the plane crashed and less then half of them survived living in the freezing cold Andes Mountains. I think the theme of this book was to never take living for granted because you never know when it will be taken away from you, and to live everyday with meaning and not to waste a breath of life. The kind of style the book was written in is a description because the a...more

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Sep 19, 2012 VaultOfBooks rated it 5 of 5 stars

By Nando Parrado and Vince Rause. Grade: A+
‘Miracle in the Andes – 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home’ is the story of adventure, courage, tragedy, horror, terror, love and much more of a group of individuals who survive for seventy two days at more than twelve thousand feet in the Andes. Penned by Nando Parrado (one of the survivors) and Vince Rause, it is an autobiographical account of the days Nando and his comrades had to face high in the Andes.
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Nando Parr...more By Nando Parrado and Vince Rause. Grade: A+
‘Miracle in the Andes – 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home’ is the story of adventure, courage, tragedy, horror, terror, love and much more of a group of individuals who survive for seventy two days at more than twelve thousand feet in the Andes. Penned by Nando Parrado (one of the survivors) and Vince Rause, it is an autobiographical account of the days Nando and his comrades had to face high in the Andes.
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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.
Thirty years after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candour 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; its a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.
This is not just a mere story. It is a nerve jangling tale of a rugby team who had taken the ill fated charter flight from Montevideo in Uruguay to Santiago in Chile which crashed high in the Andes on October 13, 1972. As the plane crashed, it broke into numerous pieces. The wreckage, bodies, luggage – everything seemed scattered for miles. Not many can survive a plane crash. But a group of twenty nine people did. They managed to survive the crash only to be confounded by a new danger. They were on top of a glacier at a height of several thousand feet in the Andes. For miles and miles, all they could see was snow; no trees, no animals, no food, not a living thing as far as eyes could see.
Sadness, fear, tension, tragedy, horror – Nando describes each and every emotion with such an utmost care for detail that makes the reader live those seventy two days with that group. The challenges they faced every day, whether it was drinking snow water, tackling the avalanches and blizzards, having to turn cannibals to stay alive, seeing their loved ones suffer painful deaths, confound altitude sickness from the thinning air and survive deadly temperatures – all of it and much more makes us feel as if we haven’t really faced much in life.
When a simple man like Nando could lead a trek up and down a seventeen thousand feet mountain for more than fifty miles to take people to safety, why can’t we take initiatives to make our lives better and keep ourselves happy all the time? Nando makes the point that love for his family and for his friends was what that kept him alive throughout the days of tragedy. If one thought sentimentally or emotionally in the mountains, his/her death was a near certainty.
Nando’s descriptions are vivid and a reader can visualize all what the group must have been through. He has also taken the pain to describe the backgrounds of most of his teammates. The narrative is a bit slow at places where Nando describes each of them. But to get a real feel of what exactly the group went through, those descriptions are a necessity.
My favourite line – “Savour your existence. Live every moment. Don’t waste a breath“
Don’t read this book like a story or novel. It’s a triumph of human spirit, courage and the indication of humans will to fight against all odds. It would be up there as one of the most inspirational stories of all time.

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Aug 15, 2012 Adam Rabiner rated it 4 of 5 stars

In 1973, just a year after the fateful crash in the Andes, Piers Paul Read wrote the now epic account of this survivors' story, Alive. Read's story is universally acclaimed as a masterful account of this epic tale of cannibalism and the power of human will. It's a third person account and it has taken 30 years for one of the sixteen survivors to tell their memoir. This task was finally assumed by Nando Parrado, one of the two men who left the relative security of the plane's fuselage to scale th...more

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May 10, 2012 Sophie Schiller rated it 5 of 5 stars

Back in the 1970's, a fantastic, gruesome story emerged that a Uruguayan plane had crashed in the Andes and the passengers had managed to stay alive by resorting to cannibalism. Pretty soon, the book "Alive" by Piers Paul Read started coursing its way through my seventh grade class, but those of us who refused to read it did so for one compelling reason: that by reading it we would somehow be tainted by the taboo of cannibalism. Many years later, when I discovered "Miracle in the Andes", a first...more

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Apr 22, 2012 muhammad rated it 4 of 5 stars

Kisah nyata kecelakaan pesawat di pegunungan Andes. Penulisnya, Nando Parrado, adalah salah satu korban yang selamat dari kecelakaan tersebut. Mereka yang ada dalam pesawat tersebut adalah para pemain Rugby yang ingin tanding ke negara tetangga. Pesawat berhasil mendarat dengan baik di pegunungan dengan perut pesawat mendatar, sehingga korban meninggal minim. Dari 45 orang hanya 32 yang masih hidup.

Pada awalnya mereka bertahan di tempat tersebut dengan mengandalkan perbekalan seadanya yang itu m...more

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Nov 10, 2011 Emily Park rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This is the true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash. Nando Parrado was a young man traveling with his rugby team from Uruguay to Chile in 1972. Also on the charter flight were Nando's mother and younger sister, and several other friends and relatives of teammates, for a total of 44 passengers. When the flight encountered bad weather high in the Andes, the plane crashed into the side of the mountain. Many passengers died immediately, and the remaining surv...more http://em-and-emm.blogspot.com/2011/1...

This is the true story of the 1972 Andes plane crash. Nando Parrado was a young man traveling with his rugby team from Uruguay to Chile in 1972. Also on the charter flight were Nando's mother and younger sister, and several other friends and relatives of teammates, for a total of 44 passengers. When the flight encountered bad weather high in the Andes, the plane crashed into the side of the mountain. Many passengers died immediately, and the remaining survivors had to survive for several months on the bitterly cold, desolate mountainside (Parrado himself spent the first few days after the crash in a coma). When it became clear that a rescue party was not coming for them, Nando had to lead a small group of people through the Andes on a desperate search for help.

This is a remarkable story. By all rights, none of the 44 passengers should have survived the plane crash. When the plane hit the mountain, the wings and tail fell off and the fuselage of the plane careened violently down the slope of the mountain, so it's enough of a miracle that anyone was left alive after the crash itself. To survive on a glacier in the Andes for over two months is even more remarkable, especially considering that the survivors had no food, no cold weather clothing, and no survival training.

Parrado does an admirable job of recounting the story, especially when parts of it must be extremely painful to recall. The narrative moves along at a good pace, giving the reader plenty of background on the team and plenty of details covering their ordeal. A great deal of the material is somewhat sensitive, and Parrado manages to handle those sections with as much tact and dignity as possible. For instance, the most infamous aspect of the whole ordeal is how the survivors managed to live with no plant or animal life around them, and no food on the plane. The survivors only managed to live because they eventually turned to the bodies of their dead friends. Because the deceased had been buried in the snow, they were later able to dig them back up and use their bodies as a source of sustenance. This is obviously a really sensitive topic that could easily become sensational, but Parrado manages to convey that they did not come to this decision lightly. He doesn't dwell unnecessarily on the grisly details, but he also doesn't apologize for it. He rightly recognizes that without this decision, no one would have made it off the mountain.

The book as a whole is written in a very tactful, delicate fashion. Parrado is obviously keenly aware of the fact that everyone made mistakes during the ordeal, and he makes a point of not singling out any particular person as being a problem. If he's discussing certain members of the group as being less inclined to help with the day-to-day survival tasks, he makes sure to not mention any names. If he is discussing weaker moments of particular individuals, he is careful to point out that these were extraordinary circumstances, and if someone fell into despair, they should not be judged harshly for it. In some points I was not sure if Parrado was exercising some artistic license to avoid offending any friends (all of the 16 survivors of the crash are still alive and they're all still friends). It did seem that he was sometimes being overly diplomatic, but I don't feel like that seriously detracts from the book as a whole. (less)

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Aug 27, 2011 Melissa rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Gripping! I cannot tell you the emotions this book will bring you. This is a true story, an emotional account written by one of the survivors of a plane crash back in October 1972 in the Andes Mountains. Honestly, I had never heard of this before? Granted when the story unfolded I was merely 6 years old and even if over the many years that have transpired, if mention of it was on the news of an "anniversary", I had no recollection of the initial happening to make it memorable for me. Now...now,...more Gripping! I cannot tell you the emotions this book will bring you. This is a true story, an emotional account written by one of the survivors of a plane crash back in October 1972 in the Andes Mountains. Honestly, I had never heard of this before? Granted when the story unfolded I was merely 6 years old and even if over the many years that have transpired, if mention of it was on the news of an "anniversary", I had no recollection of the initial happening to make it memorable for me. Now...now, I will remember this story for the rest of my life.

Just a quick sentence or two of the overall tragedy. A plane, mainly carrying passengers that made up a Rugby team from Uruguay, was heading towards Chile. The weather conditions where not ideal and perhaps they shouldn't have taken off, either way, while over the Andes Mountains in literally blind conditions the unthinkable happened. The plane made contact and the tragedy quickly unfolds, this was October 13, 1972. There had been 45 passengers on the plane, 29 survived. There were varying degrees of injuries, some mere cuts and bruises, others had injuries so severe it was a waiting game until their final breathe.

The plane had been torn in parts, the weather at 11,000 feet was inhumane and unsurvivable, these people had no provisions. Their hopes were that rescuers would find them and soon. Days turned into weeks and as circumstances grew more dire so did hope of rescue. Seventy-two days later due to the determination of two men, Nando and Roberto who traversed time and distance as a last resort to either help rescue themselves and the remaining survivors or die trying, the sixteen remaining men were all brought to safety.

What this book details is from the perspective of one of those men, Nando Parrado. It is more than a factual account of what happened and how they survived, although you will be transported into some of those grisly and unimaginable details as you read. This is true human fear, despondency, hope, anger, drive, determination and all those things that when you have nothing else you still have love and that may be the last and only thing that you are living for - and it pulls you through.

Would I recommend this book! A definitive YES! It will leave you speechless and in awe.(less)

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May 21, 2011 Katie rated it 5 of 5 stars

I started to read this book and then stopped thinking I'd seen the movie "Alive" and I don't need to relive the horrible tale of people eating people, but my friend Lisa convinced me to give it a 2nd chance and explained that this book helped her find her inner strength while running the races she does. So I decided to give it another try. I'm so happy I did. Unlike the movie "Alive", which is a factual account of the plane crash and aftermath, this book is more a book of the human soul, as Nand...more

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Feb 02, 2011 StitchKitsch rated it 5 of 5 stars

The fact that I had goosebumps during this entire book probably says enough. Nando Parrado retold his seventy-two days in the Andes in chilling detail. On October 13, 1971, the Old Christian Uruguayan Rugby Team’s flight crashed in the mountains on their way to a match in Chile. Parrado tells a story of friendship, tragedy, and perseverance as he recalls the details of their nightmarish adventure. After weeks of waiting, they hear news on their makeshift radio that they are all presumed dead and...more

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Nov 20, 2012 Anna Franziska rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Feb 02, 2011 Jennifer Malin rated it 5 of 5 stars

In 1972, on Friday the 13th of October, a Uruguayan plane crashed in the mountains. If that wasn’t bad luck enough for the 29 who initially survived, the last message the pilot radioed was his false belief that they had passed Curicó, Argentina. Now the radio didn’t work, authorities had no idea where they went down, and the plane’s white roof blended in with the snow. At 12,000 feet altitude, sparse oxygen, sub-zero temperatures and a complete lack of animal or plant life compounded their probl...more

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Jan 21, 2010 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars

I know it was 40 years ago, but this story of the rugby team stranded in the Andes after their plane crashed has really captured my thoughts. I watched the documentary "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane", and longed to know more. Perhaps I should have read "Alive!" instead, but I chose Nando's book for no good reason, probably a mistake. In fact, I think Nando assumes his readers will have read the earlier account. Nonetheless, it's an amazing story of determination in the harshest of conditions....more

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Feb 04, 2011 Marsha rated it 5 of 5 stars

In the early 1970s, Piers Paul Read’s bestseller “Alive” was published telling the story about a ruby team as well as some of their family and friends who were abandoned after their plane crashed in the Andes. Due to the crash, some passengers were immediately killed, some were badly injured, while others initially survived with barely a bruise or scratch. First they anxiously waited for their rescue. Dealing with cold weather, they were unprepared with light clothing and no food other than some...more In the early 1970s, Piers Paul Read’s bestseller “Alive” was published telling the story about a ruby team as well as some of their family and friends who were abandoned after their plane crashed in the Andes. Due to the crash, some passengers were immediately killed, some were badly injured, while others initially survived with barely a bruise or scratch. First they anxiously waited for their rescue. Dealing with cold weather, they were unprepared with light clothing and no food other than some rations of chocolate. I read Read’s book when I was a teenager with fanaticism.

Thirty years later, Nando Parrado wrote his story of the survival in his book, which was so interesting, it was difficult to put down. Nando had sustained a head injury in the crash and was unconscious for three days. But he felt that probably the cold air helped to start healing his wound.

His mother was one passenger who was killed during the crash. His sister Suzy survived for several days. Her injuries were massive and she was in constant pain and delirious. Nando tried to comfort her and keep her as warm as he could. But it upset him in knowing that he could not do anything for her pain and that if he were able to get her to a hospital, she would survive. After her inevitable death, Nando felt depressed. Having lost his mother and sister, his only real need to survive was to see his father again.

After days of no rescue, the survivors knew that they needed to do what they could to help themselves. They rationed their chocolate, and they worked as a team to come up with solutions for some of their problems. For instance, one of the ruby players saw that the plane’s seat cushions could be removed and they used them as light blankets to help keep them warmer. In the high attitude, the thin air was making the survivors thirsty. To keep themselves hydrated they constantly melted snow to drink.

They tried to explore ways to travel the mountains to get help. One crew of men explored this idea. But after only a few days, they returned looking like they aged to old men. More preparation was needed. Nando knew the survivors needed food and came to the rational conclusion that the dead bodies of their teammates and friends should be considered meat. As awful as it sounded, Nando knew that their friends’ death could help buy them time and give the survivors life while they tried to figure out how to get out of their predicament. They ate different parts of the bodies including the livers and hearts.

There was initially a lot of “meat” so the survivors agreed out of respect for Nando, not to touch his mother or sister Suzy unless things get desperate. As days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, they start to run low on this frozen meat.

Nando and other survivors twice explored the mountain again. And then on their second quest, they finally found help. When Nando gets to shower and see himself in a mirror, he is shocked by the view of his thin self, viewing his bones protruding from his skin.

Upon his return home, Nando discovers his father has sold or given away all of his things. His father thought he would never see his wife, son or daughter again. His lost was unbearable. Nando was able to confirm to his father the deaths of his mother and sister, but it was a bittersweet moment for his dad to see that Nando had survived the ordeal. Nando explained how much closer he became to his father after the tragedy, as they were able to share a separate bond over their lost. However, his father felt guilt that he could not protect his family and felt a sense of failure.

After reading this book, I may want to read “Alive” again in the future. Nando feels that it was love that kept him going. It was his need to see his father again. Nando married and had children and a successful small business, and learned to cherish life since you never know when it might be taken away.
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Dec 16, 2011 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This book was so well written in parts that it surprised me. I read it in two days, and I was disappointed that the reading was interrupted by the need for sleep - I'm sure you know this feeling, that's how much I was drawn into this story. The author is deeply insightful and completely honest, my compliments and thanks to the teamwork that resulted in this fine story. I like that he waited so long to write about the experience and how it affected him. It's a great look into the Uruguayan cultur...more

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Mar 28, 2009 Courtney rated it 5 of 5 stars

I recommend this book to everyone. What a beautifully written book with words of wisdom about love, God, and many other important things. Here is one of the passages I liked most.

These words were said by a man who didn't survive, the most non-traditionally religious one of the bunch:

(The God that you believe in) "is just a story. Religions try to capture God, but God is beyond religion. The true God lies beyond our comprehension. We can't understand His will; He can't be explained in a book. He...more

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Mar 28, 2010 Triani Retno rated it 2 of 5 stars

Aku baca edisi Bahasa Indonesia yang diterbitkan oleh C Publishing (PT Bentang Pustaka) tahun 2006.

Buku ini kubeli karena aku tertarik pada subjudul buku ini "72 Hari Tanpa Makanan dan Perjalanan Pulang Yang Panjang".

Terbayangkah bagaimana jika terdampar di Pegunungan Andes dalam cuaca buruk? Nando dan tim rugby Uruguay terdampar di sana setelah pesawat yang mereka tumpangi jatuh di tengah Pegunungan Andes. Mereka harus melihat kematian demi kematian sahabat dan keluarga mereka. Bertahan hidup d...more

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Aug 01, 2012 La'Tonya Rease Miles rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I had no sincere interest in this book, mainly because I'd seen parts of that 1993 movie with Ethan Hawke and it was so incredibly corny and cheesy, I assumed that the book from which it was based was the same. Thankfully, I was wrong. In the early chapters, I did roll my eyes because I thought it was going to be nearly 300 pages of just how good the Irish Catholics are. Or that somehow rugby served as a metaphor for this tragic expedition. Parrado does go there but thankfully, the book explores...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Jessica rated it 3 of 5 stars

The story is gripping - one which most people have heard by now. It was first told in the book Alive (which I haven't read yet) and then made into a movie based on that book. In this book, one of the men who survived this unbelievable ordeal tells the story from his point of view. He doesn't dwell on the horrors they were experiencing, or the worst parts of their months in the mountains. Instead he spends a lot of time talking about how he felt at each moment - his despair, his hope, his love fo...more

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Jan 14, 2008 Dave rated it 5 of 5 stars

Amazing. Having read Alive many years ago, and knowing what was going to happen in this true story, I was rivited nonetheless. Reading it from the perspective of Nando Parrado himself made the tale very personal and real, rather than simply a factual account. Parrado describing his emotions added imesnly to this compelling tale of hope and survival.

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Jul 26, 2011 J9 rated it 5 of 5 stars

Great book. I read another one beforehand on the Andes Flight Disaster; that one explains the tragedy in a neutral sense (i.e. mainly discussed the happenings on the mountain, very few emotive ties between characters and reader). That book was really an informative read. Here, there isn't just a recollection of events, but a first-person, survivor-to-reader kind of experience. There is more thought, more planning, more fear, more *emotion. Nando Parrado's bravery and strength shine all the way t...more

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Mar 28, 2013 Amu rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Even knowing the story, I found this a compelling narrative. Whilst not probably the best book to read when planning a trip across the Andes (!), the dire situation that these team mates are placed in, in some of the most unforgiving territory on earth, underscores the incredible mental and physical fortitude they demonstrate in their survival. The protagonist (author) offers a kindly portrait of his fellow victims, with the benefit of time, maturity and thoughtful reflection that 'Alive' didn't...more

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Mar 08, 2008 Scott rated it 5 of 5 stars

This story reminds me of when I was playing hide-and-go-seek in the meadow during the winter, and I got lost. My life wasn't in danger, and I didn't eat anyone, but I was hungry as shit. But this is a powerful book. I would love to see Nando Parrado speak in person about his experience in the Andes. Absolutely amazing.

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Mar 26, 2008 Nancy rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Much of the story was covered in an exerpt in Outside Magazine, but I still found it a great read. It is amazing to me that the survivors of the crash and subsequent avalanche survived for so long under such desperate circumstances. It's even more amazing that two were able to walk out of the Andes for help.

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“You are angry at the God you were taught to believe in as a child. The God who is supposed to watch over you and protect you, who answers your prayers and forgives your sins. This God is just a story. Religions try to capture God, but God is beyond religion. The true God lies beyond our comprehension. We can't understand His will; He can't be explained in a book. He didn't abandon us and He will not save us. He has nothing to do with our being here. God does not change. He simply is. I don't pray to God for forgiveness or favors, I only pray to be closer to Him, and when I pray, I fill my heart with love. When I pray this way, I know that God is love. When I feel that love, I remember that we don't need angels or a heaven, because we are a part of God already.” — 8 people liked it

“I had always thought that life was the actual thing, the natural thing, and that death was simply the end of living. Now, in this lifeless place, I saw with a terrible clarity that death was the constant, death was the base, and life was only a short, frgile dream. I was dead already. I had been born death, and what I thought was my life was just a game death let me play as it waited to take me. . .

Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite of death is love. How had I missed that? How does anyone miss that? Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear. For a brief, magical moment, all my fears lifted, and I knew that I would not let death control me. I would walk through the godforsaken country that separated me from my home with love and hope in my heart. I wouuld walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell I would die that much closer to my father.” — 7 people liked it

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