In 1972, a plane full of young people on their way to a rugby tournament crashed in the Andes. What followed was 72 days of survival in a rough and inhospitable environment. Those who did not die in the crash itself were in constant peril from freezing cold, hunger, avalanche and injury. How did the survivors manage to stay alive and, ultimately, bring about their own rescue? And what did that icy mountain have to teach them about love, community and the resources each of them had within them? For Eduardo Strauch, the crash became a reference point for everything in his life, his second birth. And, long after those 72 days, he felt a deep need to write about it and to explore how it had imprinted on his soul. His book, Out of the SIlence, is the result.