THEIR LIVES AFTER THE MIRACLE OF SURVIVAL
Roberto Canessa and Fernando Parrado have shown in a very public way how the overcame the accident, Canessa was a candidate for the Uruguayan presidency in 1994 and Parrado has been a TV presenter. Eduardo Strauch and José Luis “Coche” Inciarte have done plenty of drawings and paintings on their own. They all insist on how love was what kept them alive and how they appreciate the life they were so close to losing with their families, their children and wives. Each of them has gotten in some way or another the strength of living in an improved way, appreciating everything much more and being more grateful for every day waking up alive which is truly a life example.
These people all have been living their lives as normal people after surviving 72 days in the middle of a mountain range, surrounded by nothing more than mountains covered in snow. This event marked them, left them fears and ineffaceable wounds, but also taught them how to live a life that inspires other people and is filled with love. They have all gone back to the mountain and have seen a different landscape to the one they lived, they all often join together and support each other in ways that only them have the power to do to each other. 42 years later they are still the same, they keep living the same way, they use what they learnt and share their testimony to other people, they have, after all, become their own heroes.