Nando parrado wurde 1949 in montevideo, uruguay, geboren. Nando parrado on his survival of the 1972 andes air crash. I recommend reading both nando s book and roberto s book. However, it is often downplayed in books, articles, and films about the andes plane disaster. Roberto canessa was a secondyear medical student and a member of the old christians rugby team when the plane they were traveling on crashed in the andes. Roberto canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of. Just as i was about to panic, i saw those brown eyes above me, and at last i recognised the face of my friend roberto canessa. How a plane crash in the andes inspired my calling to save lives. After the rescue, nando shared his story with piers paul read, whose book on the. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Nando parrado and roberto canessas escape route in the. I had to survive and millions of other books are available for instant access. How nando parrado and roberto canessa ended historys most.
This angle of steepness and snow conditions are similar to what nando and roberto experienced while climbing on the first three days of. After the plane crashand the cannibalisma life of hope. With his close friend and team mate roberto canessa, parrado left. After the crash is written by survivor eduardo strauch, who features prominently in the story. Anyone familiar with this planecrash survival story either from the original news accounts, piers paul reads bestselling 1974 book alive or the movie that dramatized it knows that the experience illustrates. Ignore the title of nando parrados new book, miracle in the andes. Roberto canessa was a 19yearold medical student when the plane went down. The book is mostly about the plane crash, but there is a large part about the young patients who had come to roberto canessa, either in utero or shortly after birth, with heart problems he was able to fix. Nando parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the.
Canessa recalls how, two months after the crash and with only 16 of the 45 passengers left alive, he and his friend nando parrado embarked on a lifeordeath mission to the bottom of the. Andes flight disaster survivor recalls resorting to. Fernando nando seler parrado dolgay born 9 december 1949 is one of the sixteen uruguayan survivors of uruguayan air force flight 571, which crashed in the andes mountains on october 1972. One afternoon, he and his rugby teammates were on a flight bound for chile when. Roberto canessa and nando parrado were two of the 45 passengers who boarded uruguayan air force flight 571 on friday, oct. In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, nando parrado tells us what it tookand what it actually felt liketo survive high in the andes for 72 days after having been given up for dead. The late authors translator, chris andrews, exchanged emails with willing davidson, an editor in the. Canessa was a secondyear medical student and member of the uruguayan national rugby team. In 2006, nando parrado was the first of the survivors of the 1972 andes.
Author interview nando parrado, author of miracle in the. The 1972 andes air crash has been the subject of a bestselling book and a hit movie, but the story has never before been told by one of its survivors. Roberto canessa md roberto canessa is known worldwide for being one of the 16 young men of a total of 45 who survived 72 days in the andes under extreme conditions, when the plane he and his rugby teammates were in crashed into a mountain in the middle of the snowcapped andes cordillera. Together with their teammates and family members, they were traveling over the andes in a chartered plane to play a match in chile. People saw, through the book, the things just as happened. He became a master pediatric cardiologist who has helped save many childrens lives.
They realized that our intention wasnt to exhibit ourselves, but that we were just poor guys that had to save their lives to survive. I salute nando parrado and roberto canessa as two heroes who not only saved fourteen friends but who have also inspired thousands of people to live their lives more fully. Nando parrado, whose bravery led to the rescue of the survivors of an. Nando parrado and roberto canessa vigorously promoted the book in the united states and later europe. David foster wallace on david lynch is pretty funny. I read the book as a teen and it impacted me more than anything ive. Nando parrado on his survival of the 1972 andes air crash books.
Roberto canessa on i had to survive at the 2016 national book. Reportaje roberto canessa, fernando parrado, piers paul. Miracle in the andes is an astonishing account of an unimaginable ordeal. They and 17 of the other passengers were members of a uruguayan rugby team. Fernando nando seler parrado dolgay born 9 december 1949 is one of the sixteen. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with roberto canessa, climbed through the andes mountains over a 10day period to find help. And 72 days later, 14 were rescued after two more of the survivors, nando parrado and roberto canessa, walked out of the andes to find help. The story of the andes survivors, by piers paul read. The book is written in roberto canessa s voice, but other peoples reminisces are added to the text. I am climbing up to my vantage point to do more filming. Parrado co authored the 2006 book miracle in the andes. I recommend reading both nandos book and robertos book.