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I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives by Roberto Canessa, Pablo Vierci

I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives audiobook runs 8.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Kyla Garcia and Thom Rivera and others (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.5listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

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What our data says

  • At 8.5 hours, it runs longer than 60% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives is an audiobook by Roberto Canessa and Pablo Vierci: a 8.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Kyla Garcia, Thom Rivera and Elijah Alexander and others, released March 1, 2016, on the Memoirs and History & Culture shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.5 hrs
Narrated by
Kyla Garcia, Thom Rivera, Elijah Alexander, Traber Burns, Emily Woo Zeller, Neil Shah
Released
March 1, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs, History & Culture, Better in Audio
ISBN
9781504711906

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How long is the I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives audiobook?

I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives runs 8.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.

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Who narrates I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives?

I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives is narrated by Kyla Garcia, Thom Rivera, Elijah Alexander and Traber Burns and others.