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It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into two, its floor torn to smithereens; seats flew out of the air taking passengers with them. In the weeks that followed, the remaining people who were on board - the snow society - emerged to fight a dire, gruelling battle for survival.Waiting for a rescue team that didn't arrive, the survivors became fewer and fewer in numbers. Stranded alone on a glacier, they had to face brutal temperatures, lethal avalanches and the loss of friends and family with no access to supplies, food or water. In order to survive, they had to do the unthinkable . . . It wasn't until seventy-two days later that they were able to reach safety. Alarmingly gritty, moving and powerfully told, journalist Pablo Vierci recounts the unsettling stories of the sixteen survivors in intimate detail. Drawing on exclusive interviews, The Snow Society delves into the tragedy of the crash and how it radically redefined the rest of the survivors' lives. Ultimately, however, the book is a touching testament to the strength of faith, friendship, and the resilience of the human spirit.

It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains to devastating consequences: the body of the plane broke violently into two, its floor torn to smithereens; seats flew out of the air taking passengers with them. In the weeks that followed, the remaining people who were on board - the society of the snow - emerged to fight a dire, gruelling battle for survival.Waiting for a rescue team that didn't arrive, the survivors became fewer and fewer in numbers. Stranded alone on a glacier, they had to face brutal temperatures, lethal avalanches and the loss of friends and family with no access to supplies, food or water. In order to survive, they had to do the unthinkable . . . It wasn't until seventy-two days later that they were able to reach safety.Alarmingly gritty, moving and powerfully told, journalist Pablo Vierci recounts the unsettling stories of the sixteen survivors in intimate detail. Drawing on exclusive interviews, Society of the Snow delves into the tragedy of the crash and how it radically redefined the rest of the survivors' lives. Ultimately, however, the book is a touching testament to the strength of faith, friendship, and the resilience of the human spirit.

On 12 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the 'Old Christians' rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) crashed into the Andes mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading paediatric cardiologists. Canessa, a second-year medical student at the time, tended to his wounded teammates amidst the devastating carnage of the wreck and played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. This fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope and determination, solidarity and ingenuity gives vivid insight into a world famous story. Canessa also draws a unique and fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor performing arduous heart surgeries on infants and unborn babies and the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes.With grace and humanity, Canessa prompts us to ask ourselves: what do you do when all the odds are stacked against you?

Dr. Roberto Canessa recounts his side of the famous 1972 plane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andean Mountains and how, decades later, the harrowing journey to survive propelled him to become one of the world’s leading pediatric cardiologists, seeing in his patients the same fierce will to live he witnessed in the Andes.As he tended to his wounded Old Christians teammates amidst the devastating carnage, rugby player Roberto Canessa, a second-year medical student at the time, realized that no one on earth was luckier: he was alive—and for that, he should be eternally grateful. As the starving group struggled beyond the limits of what seemed possible, Canessa played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. No one could have imagined that there were survivors from the accident in such extreme conditions. Canessa''s extraordinary experience on the fine line between life and death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope and determination, solidarity and ingenuity, gives vivid insight into the world-famous story that inspired the movie Alive! Canessa also draws a unique and fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor diagnosing very complex congenital cardiopathies in unborn and newborn infants and the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes. With grace and humanity, Canessa prompts us to ask ourselves: what do you do when all the odds are stacked against you?

Del corazón de los Andes al corazón de los niños. Un libro que sorprende al mundo. Un iluminador relato de esperanza y determinación, solidaridad e ingenio, que aporta una nueva perspectiva a una historia mundialmente conocida. Este libro que acaba de publicarse en Uruguay, está sorprendiendo al mundo. Lanzado en Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña, Canadá, Australia y Nueva Zelandia en marzo de este año, está cosechando elogios en todos los medios de prensa. El prestigioso Publishers Weekly escribió que es un libro "que no lo puedes soltar desde el principio hasta el final".En la obra se trazan las conexiones entre la delgada línea entre la vida y la muerte que vivió Canessa en el accidentede los Andes, en 1972, y su trabajo diagnosticando cardiopatías congénitas muy complejas a niños recién nacidos y fetos, que lo llevó a convertirse en uno de los cardiólogos infantiles más conocidos del mundo. ROBERTO CANESSA, a los 19 años, junto con Nando Parrado, dejó atónito al mundo en diciembre de 1972, cuando aparecieron vivos en Chile tras escalar la cordillera de los Andes durante diez días, para guiar el rescate desus catorce amigos atrapados en el fuselaje, dos meses después de que el avión en que volaban se estrellara contralas montañas. Se graduó como médico cardiólogo pediatra, fue galardonado tres veces con el Premio Nacional de Medicina en Uruguay y en 2015 fue designado Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. Actualmente es jefe de Ecocardiografía y Cardiología del Hospital Italiano y colabora con una red integrada por los más prestigiosos colegas en todo el mundo.

El relat definitiu de la tragèdia dels Andes, on el lideratge i la capacitat de superació van ser decisius. Si fos ficció, esdevindria inversemblant. Però va ser i és veritat, i tots els supervivents parlen per primera vegada des d'aquell accident d'avió que els va colpejar als Andes quan tenien uns vint anys, a quatre mil metres d'altitud, sense roba d'abric ni menjar. Ara, cadascun dels setze recorda en primera persona com van ser els setanta-dos dies a la serralada, com van superar aquella situació extrema, com van entendre la mort, què va significar l'accident i com va influir posteriorment en la seva vida.La història més increïble mai explicada, una narració que commou des de la primera línia: una vivència extrema que posa a prova les capacitats de lideratge i superació. Un mosaic enorme sobre el qual es projecten setze maneres de superar allò insuperable.