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Out of the Silence
- After the Crash
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
A personal story of survival, hope, and spiritual awakening in the face of unspeakable tragedy.
It’s the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home.
Four decades after the tragedy, a climber discovered survivor Eduardo Strauch’s wallet near the memorialized crash site and returned it to him. It was a gesture that compelled Strauch to finally “break the silence of the mountains.”
In this revelatory and rewarding memoir, Strauch withholds nothing as he reveals the truth behind the life-changing events that challenged him physically and tested him spiritually, but would never destroy him. In revisiting the horror story we thought we knew, Strauch shares the lessons gleaned from far outside the realm of rational learning: how surviving on the mountain, in the face of its fierce, unforgiving power and desolate beauty, forever altered his perception of love, friendship, death, fear, loss, and hope.
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- 01-04-21
Enjoyable and engaging
I was initially suprised by the tone of this book - having avidly read an original account of the Andes plane crash survivors as a teenager (serialised in one of the Sunday supplements I think) I was expecting something similar i.e. more of a chronological, blow-by-blow account of events from start to finish.
However, this account has more of a spiritual slant, and whilst of course it gives some details of the unfolding of events, it focuses just as much on what the author felt he had learned, both at the time, and from later reflecting on the experience.
Nevertheless, although my initial expectations had been for a more historical account, I really enjoyed the book, and would recommend it. Praise must go to the translator Jennie Erikson for preserving what I assume was a somewhat transcendant tone in the original text.
I would say that for those seeking more depth on the historical details, you might try ''Alive" by Piers Paul Reid. There is also another book ''Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home'' by Nando Parrado, which is another survivor account, but gives a little more detail of the actual events than does the Eduardo Strauch/Mireya Soriano book.
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