La societat de la neu

The Snow Society is the definitive book about the most incredible story ever told. If it were fiction, it would be implausible. But it was and is true, and all the survivors speak for the first time since that plane crash that found them around twenty years old in the Andes, at an altitude of four thousand meters, with thirty degrees below zero, without shelter or food. Pablo Vierci accompanied a group of survivors with his children to the mountain. Each of the sixteen remembers in first person how the seventy-two days in the mountains were, how they overcame that extreme situation, how they understood death, what the accident meant and how it influenced their later life. Vierci was a schoolmate of the survivors; He began writing this book in 1973. Perhaps that is why the recreation of the moments before the accident, the survival in the mountains, the avalanche that killed eight friends, the decision to feed on the bodies of his companions, is so precise and successful. the expedition for help, the days after the rescue, and the life that followed. But, above all, perhaps that is why it manages to bring us closer to what is beyond the anecdote, where the explosion of the accident is recomposed in a grandiose mosaic, where sixteen mountain ranges are projected. This book is the unbeatable result of letting a story mature, in order to learn that behind tragedy and adversity, in a disproportionate and lonely scenario, it is possible to create a society different from all known ones, guided by mercy and the alternative of go beyond what is possible. The accident in the Andes divided the lives of those young people, and their story can become a hinge in the reader's experience. The snow society brought together the sixteen, with the perspective of time elapsed, so that they leave their testimonies in history.