I was very young. His presentation of the story at London's Barbican last week was deeply affecting: a 90-minute monologue about staring death in the face, surviving against all odds and spending the next four decades re-evaluating the true meaning of life and love. They had climbed a mountain on the border of Argentina and Chile, meaning the trekkers were still tens of kilometres from the green valleys of Chile. The plane slammed into a mountainside in rough weather when the pilot veered off-course. I went out in the snow and prayed to God for guidance. [17] Based on the aircraft's altimeter, they thought they were at 7,000 feet (2,100m), when they were actually at about 11,800 feet (3,597m). [49] Sergio Cataln died on 11 February 2020[50] at the age of 91. Among those survivors was a young architect named Eduardo Strauch, who held off writing about the tragedy until now. 'Society of the Snow': Netflix film to explore Andes plane crash A new softcover edition, with a revised introduction and additional interviews with Piers Paul Read, Coche Inciarte, and Alvaro Mangino, was released by HarperCollins in 2005. At Canessa's urging, they waited nearly seven days to allow for higher temperatures. [21]:9495, Parrado protected the corpses of his sister and mother, and they were never eaten. The accident and subsequent survival became known as the Andes flight disaster ( Tragedia de los Andes) and the Miracle of the Andes ( Milagro de los Andes ). The next day, the man returned. Fell from aircraft, missing: The survivors' courage under extremely adverse conditions has been described as "a beacon of hope to [their] generation, showing what can be accomplished with persistence and determination in the presence of unsurpassable odds, and set our minds to attain a common aim". Parrado called them, but the noise of the river made it impossible to communicate. Marcelo Perez, captain of the rugby team, assumed leadership.[15][17]. Desperate after more than two months in the mountains, Canessa and Fernando Parrado left the crash site to seek help. Twenty-nine people initially survived that crash, and their story of struggle in the mountains became the subject of books and movies, most famously "Alive." The book was published two years after the survivors of the crash were rescued. They now used their training to help the injured passengers. They followed the river and reached the snowline. In bad weather their plane clipped the top of a mountain in Argentina. Lagurara radioed the Malarge airport with their position and told them they would reach 2,515 metres (8,251ft) high Planchn Pass at 3:21p.m. Planchn Pass is the air traffic control hand-off point from one side of the Andes to the other, with controllers in Mendoza transferring flight tracking duties over to Pudahuel air traffic control in Santiago, Chile.
