On 13 October 1972, the plane of the Uruguayan air forces transporting a rugby team including Nando Parrado to Santiago de Chile crashed in the Andes Mountains Range. The last thing Parrado remembers before the crash was seeing the mountain right below the aeroplane followed by terrible noise and darkness. A bump on his head kept him unconscious for several days. When Parrado woke up, he discovered the real horror: the plane had broken into two pieces, his mother had died in the accident and his sister also passed away a few days later. The challenge of surviving at more than 4,000 meters high, without vegetation, water, or food and at temperatures below -20ºC started. 

Nando will offer us his unique experience of being sentenced to death and yet, achieving the impossible, fighting for survival, finding motivation, pushing resilience to the limit, facing unprecedented moral challenges, empathising with other survivors, trusting friendships, supporting the group leaders and becoming himself a leader, finding the strength to train his legs to walk away from the dead end by crossing the mountains during 10 days to finally find rescue. Out of the 45 passengers, only 16 finally returned home.