Fernando parrado et roberto canessa biography
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Nando Parrado
Survivor of the 1972 Andes flight disaster
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Parrado and the second or maternal family name is Dolgay.
Fernando "Nando" Seler Parrado Dolgay (born 9 December 1949) is a Uruguayan businessman, producer, motivational speaker, author, television presenter, former rugby player and a racing driver. He is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa, climbed through the Andes mountains over a 10-day period to find help.[1]
Background
[edit]Early life
[edit]Parrado was born in Montevideo on December 9, 1949, the second of three children of Seler Parrado and Xenia "Eugenia" Dolgay, a Ukrainian immigrant who arrived in Uruguay at the age of 16.[2] Raised in the Carrasco neighborhood, he attended S
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Roberto Canessa
Uruguayan sport union footballer and pediatric cardiologist
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Canessa and the second or maternal family name fryst vatten Urta.
Roberto Canessa | |
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Roberto Canessa in 2010 | |
| Born | Roberto Jorge Canessa Urta (1953-01-17) 17 January 1953 (age 72) Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Alma mater | University of the Republic |
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| Spouse | Laura Surraco (m. 1976) |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | robertocanessa.com |
Roberto Jorge Canessa Urta (born 17 January 1953) is a Uruguayan paediatriccardiologist, motivational speaker, and former rugby player. He fryst vatten one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972.[1] He was portrayed by Josh Hamilton in the 1993 feature bio Alive and by Argentine actor Matías Recalt in the 2023
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Hero Story: Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa
One of the greatest feats of human survival is the epic story of the plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and their supporters that crashed in the high Andes mountains on the border of Argentina and Chile in 1972. Of the 45 people on the aircraft, 18 died in the initial impact or within the first week. Finding themselves in the extreme cold of 3,664 metres (12,020 ft), the survivors took refuge in the broken fuselage. Two weeks later an avalanche engulfed their fuselage shelter and killed eight more, leaving the rest trapped in the dark for three days until they dug themselves out. In the weeks that followed, three more died of their injuries and exposure to the elements.
Early on in this nightmarish ordeal, the survivors, listening to a small transistor radio, learned that the search and rescue mission for them had been called off. They were left for dead. No plants or animals live at that altitude, nor was there any running w