Out of the Silence

After the Crash

By: Eduardo Strauch, Mireya Soriano, Jennie Erikson - translator

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

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.

©2012 by Eduardo Strauch Urioste, Mireya Soriano. Translation © 2019 by Jennie Erikson. (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

What would you do?

In a situation that these young people were accidentally put in, they managed to survive. Despite having to deal with death all around them, extreme cold, no water, and the fact that the search for them had been called off, these incredibly resilient survivors did what it took to live. A very compelling and spellbinding story narrated by a talented young man. You feel like you are there.
I highly recommend this book.

Soul. Inspiration.

The book is transformative and transcends the mind. The tragedy awakened many who survived the plane crash.

I appreciate his perspective and honesty

Both reader and Eduardo and Mireya did an amazing job. I will not forget about this book or their story

Life

Wonderful story about survival, family and Christian faith that can and will get you through anything

Absolutely LOVED this. Extremely inspiring.

What a harrowing experience. And yet, he survived. My favorite part was a deeply moving religious experience he had that has never left him in all the years since the accident.