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title: "Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home"
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# Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great recounting of the Andes disaster.
*by N***C on March 21, 2025*

I remember reading news accounts of the crash in 1972. I saw the movie “Alive” several times and read the book of the same name. This book is even more engaging because it was written by one of the most intriguing survivors…Nando Parrado. It was wonderful to read the Epilogue and learn of the survivors’ lives after their miraculous return home.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Book With Heart
*by A***R on June 3, 2006*

I read Alive by Piers Paul Read when it came out in the 70s and never forgot the terrible, life-affirming story. A few months ago when I read that Nando Parrado, one of the heroes of the book, had written his own book about the plane crash and miracle of survival, I re-read Alive, just to familiarize myself with the details.I bought this book by Nando Parrado as soon as it became available, and at times thought that it was a repeat of the Piers Paul Read book, but then began to realize that the facts are what they are, and that Nando Parrado's book is filled with much more than just facts; most of all it is filled with heart.The horror of the crash and the brotherhood of the survivors is unsurpassed in human survival accounts. I would rank Parrado up there with Shackelton and maybe a couple of other early explorers: men with grit and honor, able to see beyond the horrific facts of the unexpected circumstances they find themselves in. Because of Nando's and Roberto Cannessa's determination to not die on the mountain, and to not let even one more of the survivors perish, the miracle of the book's title occurrs when they walk out of the mountains to get help for the other survivors, who, for a variety of reasons, were unable to save themselves. Parrado's account of his very real struggle, fear and dread is bone chillingly real, but along his trek through the Andes he has fortitude and foresight, and in the realization that no human had ever climed the mountain they were on, he named the tallest mountain they traversed for his father. It is my fervent hope that the name Mt. Seler has stuck and will be printed in history books and on maps from now on.Parrado says he and the other survivors have made the unconscious decision to not let the plane crash define them, and have all moved forward with their lives for the sake of their families as well as for their own peace of mind. They are to be commended for that; however, the world would not have come to know them were it not for the accident and the miracle in the Andes. I am proud to have met these men through the pages of this remarkable book. It is truly a Masterpiece.June 22: I am editing my review above, having just finished Terri Jentz's book, Strange Piece of Paradise. Her book also tells of a horrific event that befell the writer, also in the 70s, but there is a huge difference between that book and this one: Jentz has never gotten over her trauma, in fact would appear to be stuck in it. It bothered me. Her book was overly long and exhausting in the extreme. And compared to Miracle in the Andes the event she experienced was very strange, but almost trivial in comparison. I have added the paragraph below to this review ....Once read, Miracle In The Andes will never be forgotten, not only for the courageous story that is told, but because of the man writing the book. Nando Parrado has to be the bravest and wisest man I have ever come across in the pages of a book. How he has taken the catastrophic event of the plane crash, followed by deaths, freezing weather, broken bodies, hunger, etc. and turn it into the Miracle of the title is just about beyond my comprehension. What a man he is to realize that we cannot let one event define our lives, no matter how painful or horrific that event may be. He also has somehow rallied together, every single year for 30 plus years, his fellow survivors, and they are all smiling in every photo I have ever seen of them. He is my hero. All of these men are heroes. I can't think of enough ways of stating how wonderful this book is, and how fabulous its message is. Please, please read it and recommend it to anyone who wants to be proud to be a human being.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ It is a compelling rumination on joy, loss
*by A***R on May 23, 2016*

This story is remarkable for thought and expressions of this reasons beyond the circumstances of the where and how of the plane crash that allowed these young men to survive in an environment where there was utterly no means of sustenance. The title of the book suggest that it is going to be laden with the usual panderings to a mysterious deity whose motives are unknown or capricious but almost always survivors decide that the deity needed them for some future endeavor. Not so with Mr. Parrado. He was a member of a rugby team which was traveling to an exhibition game on the other side of the Andes mountains. Teamwork he finally decides is the difference between winning and loosing. His interior monologue on this brings to the reader his rationality and logic which he can sustain under extreme duress. His straightforward acknowledgement of using the deceased as sustenance which was agreed to by the group is notable as it relates directly to a rational assessment of their predicament and the force of the desire to survive. This necessity is not simply mentioned, he refers to the obstacles and natural revulsion on several occasions. In other words he deals with it. This event was written about some few years after the event which happened in 1970. Later a movie was made about it. This book comes now 35 or so years after the event. It is a compelling rumination on joy, loss, love and life.

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