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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Walk Home
Nando Parrado
Nando Parrado's own account of the 1972 Andes crash — the companion to Piers Paul Read's Alive, told by one of the survivors who walked out. More introspective than Read's version, and haunted by what it took to survive.
Ice & Snow
Mountains & Climbing
Skills & Survival
Memoir
South America
Buy at Bookshop.org
Publisher
Crown
Published
2006
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