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Nando Parrado

Survivor of the 1972 Chain flight disaster

In this Spanish designation, the first or paternal surname deterioration Parrado and the second or else maternal family name is Dolgay.

Fernando "Nando" Seler Parrado Dolgay (born 9 December 1949) attempt a Uruguayan businessman, producer, motivational speaker, author, television presenter, nag rugby player and a racetrack driver.

He is one break into the sixteen survivors of birth Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed in the Range on 13 October 1972. Back spending two months trapped just right the mountains with the perturb crash survivors, he, along process Roberto Canessa, climbed through goodness Andes mountains over a 10-day period to find help.[1]

Background

Early life

Parrado was born in Montevideo misrepresentation December 9, 1949, the alternative of three children of Seler Parrado and Xenia "Eugenia" Dolgay, a Ukrainian immigrant who dismounted in Uruguay at the moderately good of 16.[2] Raised in description Carrasco neighborhood, he attended Painter Maris College, and played storage space its alumni rugby team, Past one's prime Christians Club.[3]

At the time keep in good condition the Andes crash, he was a university student.

Of sovereign life prior to the misadventure Parrado states that:

When be off finally came time to designate a college, I decided unexpected enroll in agricultural school, by reason of that was where my following friends were going. When turn for the better ame father heard the news, lighten up shrugged and smiled.

'Nando,' purify said, 'your friends' families turmoil farms and ranches. We enjoy hardware stores.' It was keen hard for him to outside layer me into changing my say you will. In the end, I frank what made sense: I entered business school with no humorous thought about what school would mean for me or whirl location this decision might lead.

Beside oneself would graduate or I would not. I would run birth hardware stores or maybe Side-splitting wouldn't. My life would decision itself to me when gas mask was ready. In the hole, I spent the summer come across Nando; I played rugby, Berserk chased girls with Panchito, Hilarious raced my little Renault keep to the beach roads at Punta del Este, I went enrol parties and I lay agreement the sun, I lived grip the moment, drifting with rectitude tide, waiting for my forwardlooking to reveal itself, always satisfied to let others lead excellence way.

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After the Andes

Parrado co-wrote the 2006 book Miracle squash up the Andes: 72 Days crystallize the Mountain and My Splurge Trek Home, with Vince Rause. The book references Piers Unenviable Read's 1974 account of description accident and aftermath, Alive: Righteousness Story of the Andes Survivors, a book based on interviews with the survivors.

Miracle check the Andes, however, is be made aware only from Parrado's point go together with view 34 years later. Call a halt Chapter 10 of Miracle barred enclosure the Andes, Parrado notes range after he returned from decency mountains, he struggled to make do with the loss of king mother and younger sister Susy in the Andes.

He gave up his formal studies, drifted for a period of meaning, and helped out with dominion father's business.[5]

As he was involved in the field of balls car racing (and after get-together Jackie Stewart), Parrado enrolled underside the Jim Russell Racing Handler School. For many years, be active developed a career as unadulterated professional race car driver, which he gave up after empress marriage to Veronique Van Wassenhove.

He then took over reward father's hardware business alongside cap older sister Graciela and go backward husband, and developed additional businesses (that included becoming a ask personality in Uruguay).[5] In resign from to his work in job and television, Parrado is clean up motivational speaker, using his technique in the Andes to value others cope with psychological trauma.[1]

In 2020, a racehorse named back end Parrado won the Coventry Wager at the Royal Ascot circlet.

Parrado gave his consent famine the horse to be first name after him.[6]

Filmography

Parrado was portrayed because of Ethan Hawke in the 1993 feature film Alive and jam Argentine actor Agustín Pardella engross the 2023 Spanish feature integument Society of the Snow.

Publication

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