‘The Snow Society’: real images taken by survivors of tragedy in the Andes waiting for rescue

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The BBC publishes photos of the tragedy in the Andes that inspired the film by Spanish director Juan Anonio Bayona. Uruguayan Air Force plane collided with a mountain in the Andes Antonio Vizintín/courtesy via BBC On the afternoon of December 21, 1972, Chilean Air Force commander Carlos García Monasterio called Corporal Ramón Canales to coordinate the flight of three helicopters to the Andes. Monasterio received the surprising news that two of the 45 passengers on the FH-227D plane, which had crashed in the mountains more than two months ago, had been found alive. Oscar 2024 announces nominees with ‘Oppenheimer’, ‘Poor Creatures’ and ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Both Uruguay and Chile had been searching for weeks, without success, for the trail of the passengers in the Valley of Tears, a wall of rocks and ice almost 4 thousand meters high on the border between Chile and Argentina. After 10 days of walking through the snow, having left the scene of the accident in search of help, survivors Fernando Parrado and Roberto Canessa found a man who helped them. “I come from a plane that crashed in the mountains. I’m Uruguayan. We’ve been walking for ten days. There are 14 injured people on the plane. We have to get out of here quickly and we don’t know how. We have no food. We are weakened. Where are we?”, wrote one of them on a small piece of paper. “It was unlikely for us that they were really the survivors of the Uruguayan plane,” Corporal Canales told the EFE agency on the 50th anniversary of the rescue, in 2022. “We had completed more than a hundred missions in search of them.” Film ‘The Snow Society’ is inspired by the true story of Andean survivors Antonio Vizintín/courtesy via BBC The new rescue operation would begin at 5:30 am the following morning, with the first traces of natural light. Canales was, at the time, a 22-year-old mechanic. He remembers that the weather that day was not good. They hoped it would improve to avoid accidents — until Commander García gave the order to leave “no matter what.” For the rescue, as recalled by the Chilean Air Force, the helicopters had to resort to “maneuvers to the limit of their technical capabilities” to face the weather. Finally, after a few tries, they found the remains of the Uruguayan plane that sheltered the 16 survivors of the brutal cold for 72 days. Of the 40 passengers and five crew members traveling on the plane, 29 died. The survivors were rescued on December 23, after a failed attempt the previous day and after the addition of a third helicopter, which participated in the operation bringing fuel to the camp located at the foot of the mountain. The Chilean Air Force remembers the event as one of the “most important and unprecedented missions in the history of world aeronautics”. The film The Snow Society, by Spanish director Juan Anonio Bayona, was nominated for the Oscar for best international film. Below, see some of the real images that inspired the film. The images The last photo of pilot Julio César Ferradás on the eve of the accident Mariano Rodrigo/courtesy via BBC On the day of the accident, the Chilean Air Control Center declared a ‘danger phase’ Antonio Vizintín/courtesy via BBC Of the 45 people who were in the flight, 16 survived Antonio Vizintín/courtesy via BBC Parrado, one of the survivors who had the task of guiding the rescuers, was traveling in one of the rescue helicopters Uruguayan Air Force/via BBC Text originally published in See also Meal with meat and talks about humanity: the last hours of the prisoner executed by nitrogen asphyxiation in the USA USA: man who survived the lethal injection attempt will be asphyxiated with nitrogen gas

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