The story of Nando Parrado is one of those stories that happen once a century, its first name is Fernando Seler Parrado, he was only 23 years old when he lived an experience that divided his life into two parts, Nando was the protagonist of the tragedy. known as the “Miracle of the Andes,” which occurred in the 1970s in South America.
A private plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in one of the Andes on Chilean territory, the team was to participate in an international championship. Including the crew, there were 45 people on that plane, after a week only 27 survived, in the end only 16 people were saved, largely thanks to Nando.
- The accident occurred at a height of more than 4.
- 000 meters.
- It was a rocky area.
- Completely covered with snow.
- There was no life there.
- Only the wreckage of the plane and a group of people who did what was necessary to survive.
“If you want to change the wrong part of the past, you’ll end up changing much of the present you’ve come to through the bad side of the past. So, did it happen yesterday?. -Fernando Parrado-
The aircraft crash occurred on October 13, 1972, the flight was in normal course, but the winds suddenly changed direction and the pilot did not notice this abrupt change, continued the planned route without realizing that he had made a detour. bad and visibility was bad. As a result, the plane crashed into a mountain.
The pilot had reported his contact information incorrectly. Thus, when the rescue mission began, he found no trace of the aircraft and the search was suspended just over a week after the plane crashed.
Meanwhile, the survivors organized to care for the sick, ration the scarce supplies they had, and try to call for help. The leader of all was the captain of the rugby team, Marcelo Pérez.
Nando Parrado traveled with her mother and sister, the mother died instantly at the time of the accident, the sister survived but was injured, meanwhile, Nando struggled between life and death, was unconscious for three days. His companions looked after him until the day he awoke, then devoted himself to caring for his sister, until his death.
This young Uruguayan, a student of mechanical engineering, had a low profile within the group, however, his desire to survive seemed to be greater than that of others, even with his losses, the group got carried away by inertia, while Nando only thought of one way out.
The young men began to die, one by one. This led Nando to try, alone, to cross the mountain range and reach an inhabited place to ask for help, finally convinced his partner, Roberto Canessa, to accompany him, both have embarked on an extremely dangerous journey, with only a serving of food and no equipment to climb or take refuge, they were able to fulfill the mission.
Nando and his companion took the authorities to the crash site on the same day they came into contact with civilization, their 14 companions were saved by this act of will and decision, the news spread in every media within a few hours. When asked how they managed to survive without eating for more than two months, a controversial story emerged.
The young man had decided to eat human flesh, fed on corpses eating under the snow because they had no other food source, this has provoked and remains very critical, the fact became a scandal.
In his own words: “I lost my mother, sister and friends, broke my head, buried an avalanche, crossed the Andes for help, and returned to the crash site with rescue helicopters in the middle of heavy snowfall. When it was over, my life was destroyed. I had to do it again. Did my mountain range start later?.
When Nando Parrado was re-founded with his father, he heard “Thank you for coming back. “He managed to remake his life with one idea in mind: he had to fight to do exactly what he wanted. This led him to become a racing driver. Driver. Thus he met the woman he married and whom he now lives extremely happy with.