Vince Rause Books

The story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and rescue, finally told by one of the heroes who saved his team-mates. When Nando Parrado took off on a flight from Uruguay to Chile with his rugby team-mates, he was looking forward to an enjoyable weekend break and had invited his mother and sister along for the trip. Then disaster struck, as their plane crashed into a mountain. Miraculously, many of the passengers survived but Nando's family died and he was unconscious for three days. Stranded 11 000 feet up on an inhospitable glacier, the survivors had almost no food or suitable equipment to withstand temperatures as low as -40C. In a final, desperate bid for safely, Nando and one of his friends set off on an impossible journey, climbing 17 000 feet-high mountains, facing death at every step.

An introduction to the field of neurotheology explores the complex relationship between spiritual belief and the human brain, examining the link between transcendant religious experience and actual neurological events

Nando Parrado byl tři dny v bezvědomí, a když se probudil, zjistil, že letadlo, s nímž letěl jeho ragbyový tým, jejich rodinní příslušníci a fanoušci na přátelské utkání do Chile, havarovalo kdesi hluboko v Andách. Brzy si uvědomil, že mnoho lidí je mrtvých či umírá, mezi nimi i jeho matka a sestra. Ti, kteří havárii přežili, zůstali trčet na pustém ledovci ve výšce asi 3 500 m bez jakýchkoli zásob či vybavení a bez prostředků na přivolání pomoci. Museli překonávat mrazivé teploty, smrtonosné laviny i následky katastrofické zprávy, že pátrání po nich bylo odvoláno.