I: There must be certain things that will make you feel alarmed.
F: There are some situations that make me feel like I am drowning, however, then I go back to the moment when I was in the middle of a mountain and I thought to myself “I can’t go on anymore” but I did it and now I’m here and I can overcome the obstacles that alarm me. However, it is not a conscious thought; it just helps me keep from drowning in a glass of water.
I: That’s why I think, Nando, that there’s an extraordinary lesson here, you went against the odds. A great realism is what surges from your narration, where the main topic is adapting to changes and doing this while finding support in others.
F: We worked as a team, only some people left the plane first, but it was thanks to those decisions we all made with a vision of getting out and using what everybody was good at to overcome this. We chose the expeditionaries basing ourselves on what we could physically do.
I: You are a truly amazing person with a wonderful personality; we are still shocked with all you survivors did. You joined as a group in an extreme limit situation and we should learn from what you all did as individuals and as a group.
F: I want to thank you for your opinions and your questions and I want to enclose this interview by telling you the most important thing I learned, something I always keep in mind. When something is tough, we all have our cordilleras in life, we have to keep in mind that there’s life after the tragedy. The universe doesn’t care about what you’re feeling. We have to hold on to the non-material things, we’ll be very stupid without the love from our loved ones, that’s what keeps us going. Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC9gPxsBJi4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQAeypBbI8s
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/may/18/extract.features11