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. 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. “In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.” “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 seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”-Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes-and one man’s quest to lead them all home-now in a special edition for 2022, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the crash, featuring a new introduction by the author.
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