Tenía que sobrevivir

Synopsis of Tenía que sobrevivir

'Tenía que sobrevivir' (I Had to Survive) by Roberto Canessa and Pablo Vierci offers an inspiring account of hope, determination, and solidarity, shedding new light on the well-known story of the plane crash in the Andes. On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane, carrying the Old Christians rugby team along with friends and family, crashed in the Andean mountain range. This book narrates the experience of Roberto Canessa, one of the survivors, and how this close encounter with death propelled him to become a renowned pediatric cardiologist. Through his experiences, Canessa draws a parallel between the life-or-death decisions he faced in the Andes and his work diagnosing complex congenital heart diseases in newborns, inviting us to reflect on how to act in the face of adversity.