Sněžné bratrstvo – Vierci Pablo (2026)

This is the definitive account of one of the most unbelievable stories ever told. If it were fiction, it would seem implausible, but the story is true. For the first time since the plane crash that stranded them at around twenty years of age in the Andes, roughly four thousand metres above sea level and in temperatures of around thirty degrees below zero, all the survivors speak about what happened. Pablo Vierci accompanied several survivors who returned to the crash site in the Andes years later, now with their children. All sixteen people who lived through the disaster recall their seventy-two days in the mountains, how they overcame an extreme situation, how they experienced death, what the accident meant to them, and how it shaped their lives. The book describes the moments immediately before the crash, the group’s struggle to survive among the high mountains, and the later lives of the members of this brotherhood. Above all, it reveals what lies behind a story in which the sound of a falling aircraft merges with the majestic silence of the mountains, creating a powerful mosaic of sixteen different ways to face death and survive. The contents are in Czech.