Eduardo Strauch Urioste was born in 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1968 he opened an architectural studio with his best friend from childhood, Marcelo Pérez. He has worked as an architect and painter, and for many years he has lectured about his experience surviving seventy-two days in the Andes after the legendary 1972 plane crash on the Chilean-Argentine border. He is married to Laura Braga; they have five children and live in Montevideo.Mireya Soriano is an award-winning Argentinean-Uruguayan writer. She is the author of The Rose of Tales, There Is No Time for More, Let the Sea Cry, and The Sky of the Owl.Jennie Erikson graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in history and anthropology; she earned an MA in medieval archaeology from York University in England; and she has worked on excavation sites in Easter Island, Jordan, England, and the western United States. She met Eduardo Strauch on an expedition to the plane crash site in the Andes and has been honored to translate Out of the Silence from its original Spanish and help bring his inspiring story to a wider audience.Jennie lives in Colorado with her husband, where she reviews history books for her website (www.historybookreviews.com) and reads voraciously on every historical subject she can find.

“Strauch’s horrifying story of survival in the high Andes was the stuff of gruesome global headlines in 1972…But to Strauch, who kept silent about the ordeal for decades after he and 15 others endured 72 days stranded on a glacier, it was a spiritual experience.” —New York Post

Eduardo Strauch Urioste was born in 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1968 he opened an architectural studio with his best friend from childhood, Marcelo Pérez. He has worked as an architect and painter, and for many years he has lectured about his experience surviving seventy-two days in the Andes after the legendary 1972 plane crash on the Chilean-Argentine border. He is married to Laura Braga; they have five children and live in Montevideo.Mireya Soriano is an award-winning Argentinean-Uruguayan writer. She is the author of The Rose of Tales, There Is No Time for More, Let the Sea Cry, and The Sky of the Owl.Jennie Erikson graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in history and anthropology; she earned an MA in medieval archaeology from York University in England; and she has worked on excavation sites in Easter Island, Jordan, England, and the western United States. She met Eduardo Strauch on an expedition to the plane crash site in the Andes and has been honored to translate Out of the Silence from its original Spanish and help bring his inspiring story to a wider audience.Jennie lives in Colorado with her husband, where she reviews history books for her website (www.historybookreviews.com) and reads voraciously on every historical subject she can find.

“Strauch’s horrifying story of survival in the high Andes was the stuff of gruesome global headlines in 1972…But to Strauch, who kept silent about the ordeal for decades after he and 15 others endured 72 days stranded on a glacier, it was a spiritual experience.” —New York Post

Eduardo Strauch Urioste was born in 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1968 he opened an architectural studio with his best friend from childhood, Marcelo Pérez. He has worked as an architect and painter, and for many years he has lectured about his experience surviving seventy-two days in the Andes after the legendary 1972 plane crash on the Chilean-Argentine border. He is married to Laura Braga; they have five children and live in Montevideo.Mireya Soriano is an award-winning Argentinean-Uruguayan writer. She is the author of The Rose of Tales, There Is No Time for More, Let the Sea Cry, and The Sky of the Owl.Jennie Erikson graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in history and anthropology; she earned an MA in medieval archaeology from York University in England; and she has worked on excavation sites in Easter Island, Jordan, England, and the western United States. She met Eduardo Strauch on an expedition to the plane crash site in the Andes and has been honored to translate Out of the Silence from its original Spanish and help bring his inspiring story to a wider audience.Jennie lives in Colorado with her husband, where she reviews history books for her website (www.historybookreviews.com) and reads voraciously on every historical subject she can find.

“Strauch’s horrifying story of survival in the high Andes was the stuff of gruesome global headlines in 1972…But to Strauch, who kept silent about the ordeal for decades after he and 15 others endured 72 days stranded on a glacier, it was a spiritual experience.” —New York Post