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

English

ISBN: 140009769X

EAN: 9781400097692

Category: Social Science / Anthropology / General/Travel / Essays & Travelogues/Biography & Autobiography / General/Technology & Engineering / Aeronautics & Astronautics/

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Release Date: 05/15/2007

Synopsis: 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 fathers 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.

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

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.72 inches

Width: 5.14 inches

Length: 7.95 inches

Weight: 9.63 oz

Pages: 304