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{{Short description|2006 non-fiction book by Nando Parrado}}
{{about|a book describing the 1972 Andes flight disaster|the disaster itself|Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox book
| name           = Miracle in the Andes
| image          = Miracle in the andes bookcover.jpg
| caption        = Hardcover edition
| title_orig     = Milagro en los Andes
| author         = [[Nando Parrado]]<br>Vince Rause
| country        = [[Uruguay]] (author) <br>United States (publisher)
| language       = Spanish, English
| genre          = Non-fiction
| publisher      = [[Crown Publishers]]
| pages          = 304
| pub_date       = {{date|May 9, 2006|mdy}}
| isbn           = 978-0756988470
}}
'''''Miracle in the Andes''''' (in Spanish ''Milagro en los Andes'') is a 2006 [[memoir]] by [[Nando Parrado]] and co-author Vince Rause, published by [[Crown Publishers|Crown]]. It documents his perspective within a rugby team's survival of a 1972 crash  of [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]] into the [[Andes]] mountains, and his life afterward.
==Story==
{{main|Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571#The crash and rescue}}
[[Nando Parrado]] co-wrote the 2006 book ''Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home'', with Vince Rause. In it, Parrado returns to the events described in [[Piers Paul Read]]'s 1974 book, ''[[Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors]]'' which is the story of [[Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571]], most passengers of which were in a Uruguayan rugby team consisting of alumni of [[Stella Maris College (Montevideo)|Stella Maris College]]. The flight [[Accidents and incidents in aviation|crashed]] into the [[Andes mountains]] on October 13, 1972. Their meager food was consumed after ten days, so survivors agreed that all future survivors should eat any bodies, to endure until rescue.
Piers Paul Read's version was published two years after the rescue and was based upon interviews with the survivors. However, ''Miracle of the Andes'' is a [[memoir]] written 34 years later from Nando Parrado's perspective.
==Reception==
''Publishers Weekly'' wrote: "more than a companion to the 1970s best-selling chronicle of the disaster, ''Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors'', this is a fresh, gripping page-turner that will satisfy adventure readers, and a complex reflection on camaraderie, family and love."<ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781400097678 Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Journey Home to My Father]</ref>
[[Jon Krakauer]], the author of'' [[Into Thin Air]]'', said the book is "an astonishing account of an unimaginable ordeal".<ref>dust-jacket of the first edition</ref>
==Adaptations==
* The play ''Sobrevivir a los Andes'' (Surviving the Andes) was written by Gabriel Guerrero and premiered on 13 October 2017. Based on the account written by [[Nando Parrado]], it was presented in 2017 at Teatro la Candela in Montevideo, Uruguay and in 2018 at Teatro Regina in Buenos Aires, Argentina.<ref>{{cite web |title="Sobrevivir a los Andes": la primera adaptación teatral del accidente aéreo – 970AM Universal |url=https://970universal.com/2018/05/08/sobrevivir-a-los-andes-la-primera-adaptacion-teatral-del-accidente-aereo/ |website=970AM Universal |access-date=18 July 2018 |language=es |date=8 May 2018 |archive-date=19 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719024322/https://970universal.com/2018/05/08/sobrevivir-a-los-andes-la-primera-adaptacion-teatral-del-accidente-aereo/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title="Sobrevivir en los Andes" irrepetible experiencia que llega al teatro |url=https://970universal.com/2017/10/27/sobrevivir-los-andes-irrepetible-experiencia-llega-al-teatro/ |website=970AM Universal |access-date=18 July 2018 |language=es |date=27 October 2017 |archive-date=19 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719025912/https://970universal.com/2017/10/27/sobrevivir-los-andes-irrepetible-experiencia-llega-al-teatro/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://casadelteatro.org.ar/2018/05/02/sobrevivir-a-los-andes-martes-y-miercoles-2030hs/ |title=Sobrevivir a los Andes |language=es |access-date=18 July 2018 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718175209/http://casadelteatro.org.ar/2018/05/02/sobrevivir-a-los-andes-martes-y-miercoles-2030hs/}}</ref>
*''Miracle Flight 571'', composed and created by Lloyd Burritt, is a two-act chamber opera based on ''Miracle in the Andes'' by Parrado. It received its musical premiere at the 2016 ''What Next Festival of Music''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Miracle Flight 571|url=http://www.miracleflight571.com/|access-date=9 February 2021|website=miracleflight571.com|language=en-US|archive-date=21 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121172404/http://www.miracleflight571.com/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2016 What Next Festival of Music brings opera back to Hamilton – Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra|url=https://hpo.org/5970-2/|access-date=9 February 2021|website=hpo.org|archive-date=12 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212233740/https://hpo.org/5970-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official|penguinrandomhouse.com/books/127045/miracle-in-the-andes-by-nando-parrado-with-vince-rause}}
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