Out of the Silence: After the Crash

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A personal story of unbelievable survival, hope, and spiritual awakening in the face of unspeakable tragedy.

The Andes tragedy: one of the most extraordinary tales of physical endurance on record told by a survivor who was challenged to the extreme.

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, swallowed up by a silent mountain that was too high and too cold to sustain life. It was a harrowing tale 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 memorialised 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 event that challenged him physically and tested him spiritually, but would not destroy him. In revisiting a horror story we thought we knew, Strauch takes the reader along on his quest for closure, sharing the lessons he divined during the ordeal that are 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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Strauchs horrifying story of survival in the high Andes was the stuff of gruesome global headlines in 1972But to Strauch, who kept silent about the ordeal for decades after he and 15 others endured 72 days stranded on a glacier, it was a spiritual experience. New York Post

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Eduardo Strauch Urioste was born in 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1968 he opened an architectural studio with his best friend from childhood, Marcelo Prez. He has worked as an architect and painter, and for many years he has lectured about his experience surviving seventy-two days in the Andes after the legendary 1972 plane crash on the Chilean-Argentine border. He is married to Laura Braga; they have five children and live in Montevideo. Mireya Soriano is an award-winning Argentinean-Uruguayan writer. She is the author of The Rose of Tales, There Is No Time for More, Let the Sea Cry, and The Sky of the Owl.