Out of the Silence, Eduardo Strauch
Out of the Silence, Eduardo Strauch
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Out of the Silence
After the Crash

Author: Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano, Jennie Erikson

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 4 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/11/2019

Synopsis

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.

About Eduardo Strauch

Eduardo Strauch Urioste was born in 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1968 he opened an architectural studio with his best friend from childhood, Marcelo Pérez. 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.

About Mireya Soriano

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fishface on October 25, 2019

This is the 5th book I've read about the Andes crash and all I want is more. In some ways this memoir was the most intriguing yet. Strauch takes a very philosophical tack in talking about the events that took the lives of so many of his friends but somehow spared him. He added some fascinating detai......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on June 29, 2019

Any survivor of that dreadful and unforgettable crash in the Andes deserves our sympathy, respect and admiration. However, I found this memoir too fractured to fully engage me. It jumps about in time and I was on occasion unsure what the time scale actually was, thus making it feel that their ordeal......more

Goodreads review by Gabija. on June 18, 2022

Skaudi, žiauri knyga. Tiksliau istorija. Nemeluosiu, apie šią tragediją girdėti iki paimant į rankas knygą, neteko visiškai, visada galvojau, kad tokios istorijos tik rašytojų ar filmų kūrėjų išmislas. Ir skaityti, bei suvokti, kad viskas vyko iš tikrųjų... žiauru. Bet visa istorija man dar kartą įr......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on March 18, 2021

If you missed this event when it happened or you're too young to have known, this is a story of survival. In October 1972, a plane chartered by a Uruguyan rugby team crashed in the Andes. Miraculously, many were neither killed instantly nor severely injured. The young men had little with them to fac......more

Goodreads review by Jammin Jenny on April 29, 2020

This story was a very interesting account of the plane crash in the Andes with the Rugby team. It was pretty horrific at times the things they went through. It was interesting reading though. I hope I never end up in a situation like that!!......more

Quotes

“Strauch’s horrifying story of survival in the high Andes was the stuff of gruesome global headlines in 1972…But 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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