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Miracle in the Andes [electronic resource] : 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home / by Nando Parrado with Vince Rause.

by Parrado, Nando, 1949-

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[Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2006.

Parrado, Nando, 1949-

Airplane crash survival.

Aircraft accidents -- Andes Region.

Cannibalism -- Andes Region.

Aircraft accident victims -- Uruguay -- Biography.

Electronic Resource

http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0F79B1D4-2B2D-4462-8297-298E83A9F3FC This title is available online; click here to access

9780739353929 (electronic audio book)

0739353926 (electronic audio book)

Before -- Everything precious -- A promise -- Breath once more -- Abandoned -- Tomb -- East -- The opposite of death -- "I see a man" -- After.

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.

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