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the laws
the pillar position in the ranking is the
what more hits he receives and what he should take
the heaviest load
your coach at woodville college
very demanding andes chose it for its
physical strength but visintín knew that
they had also selected him for his
values saw his colleagues die
while suffering from hunger and cold in
the mountain
he learned to fight and not resign himself
I was 19 years old
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what they just saw happened just
45 years ago tomorrow is satisfied that
anniversary rock 19 years we went to Chile
with all my fellow Christian
stella alumni club
maris and what you saw there that
it talks about the success we had this is
a history of failures one failure to the
side of the other
we had a number of failures as
long 72 days and we had a success only
we had to adapt to the environment in the
that we were not I was going to chile to
know the snow like others
companions and once we fell
we wait for the rescue
we had to bank to those who were
dead to those who were injured was
all a huge difficulty after 7 days
we felt for the radio that was suspended
the search
that was one of the biggest hits
we had because from that
moment we realized that we were
alone in the mountains and that everything depended
of what we did for the
world were dead and the only ones that
we knew we were alive we were
we try to start doing
water because it was one of the things that
we had some is tremendous and then it
began to make waters began to sort
that plane began to grasp awareness of
that either we all saved or we died
everyone and that was a very important thing
which happened from above to ten days more or
least we had to feed with the
bodies of our peers with is the
such pride that caused us which is that
with that pen it was a taboo that there was but
it was a life or death option
a few days later almost a week we
stop avalanche and of the 28 that we have
stayed alive
we were 18
we were inside an igloo during
almost a week
we had lost our machines
water plane lost our elements
we had lost the blanket
absolutely lost everything
we had to tunnel and start with
what was the mouth of the plane to dig
with what there was to try to return
to be that comfortable airplane for
us and be able to have a little heat
and in those circumstances that we felt
we feel a tremendous pain
We could not believe what was
passing our Catholic formation of
have gone to a Catholic school during
12 years I was trying to find a
explanation of why these did not happen
things we were 19 years old we had all
our life ahead
we fell on the mountain do not look for more
we feed ourselves with our companions
the nalut street
why does that happen to us we had
angry with god at that time and very
angry because we did not understand what it was
what was happening at a certain moment
I remember having fired God the
possibility of going back to my house they give
a kiss to my father to my mother and go back to
the mountain and die there was so big
the suffering that we felt about
the loneliness the uprooting we were
feeling that the investment was something of
everyday
added to the cold that we had that could
be between but 20 minus 30 minus 40
nobody knows we are almost 4,000 meters
of 1,800 hidalgo meters high in the
through the mountains you the
they know and in that situation I can
say that the racc nor for us to
me at least it was fundamental he raimi
as a sport educator was something that we
saw a way to face all of that
he taught us that victory or defeat
they are part of life itself and that
he served on the mountain and did not serve after
of the mountain also the group was very
important
in every way because we did not go
some said two virtues
we were crazy fighting to get out
but we were also crazy that I do not know
demoralize let’s go down we
let’s destroy and especially what happened
night when we are alone sleeping
I was coming down the world, I was saying from here
I can go this is impossible and without
But the next day you support yourself uniform
of invincible and I went out to fight again
and fight and fight back to leave
from that place and the group was
very important also because there was a
work that started being a work of
team and then it was transformed into
a society each of which was
there he gave one hundred percent of what
they had stop and you will say is
important fundamental because there were people
that he had his leg
there was in fact pancho delgado and álvaro
machin or had their leg broken they had
broken the femur had been left
rather sick twisted and has a
smart detachment so to speak but
they left the plane every day they
they would sit outside and make water all
day
others were cleaning the plane
others dedicated to the part of
feeding and went with playing everything
a team of people that was important
because there was no need to
supervised a team was created
expeditionaries which I integrated
set with nando parrado and roberto
head
the expedition team will be the
legs of those left on the plane
and the styles and the people that were
on the plane they had assumed they had
to sacrifice themselves so that we
we were in better condition
no better places were found
sleep we had double ration of
food we were not obliged to
jobs we could choose the clothes that
we wear the shoes and in fact it happened
because you asked someone I need your
jacket or I need your shoes and that
daban did not ask you where are you going to
take out another
or how they were going to sap is the group of those who
he stayed on the plane they were aware
that it was important that we
we were in the best conditions
man bear many things in the
As you have hope and
we always had that hope
to leave that place
our objective the common goal that
had this group that came out of the mountain
and everyone did everything possible to
that for that to be true
link the expeditions and cost us
a lot
going out to look for help because as they
he said how are we talking to some
friends
We went downriver without knowing that not
I hoped it was what we could
find
in fact on one of those days we found
what was the plane’s junk terror
we found three candy candies
milk sucked and bitten in a brand
of the teeth a handful of coffee and a
handful of being mom you the candies and
we had fun and enjoyed it
we enjoyed that sweet taste sweet sgs of
milk and coffee the same we put it what
mixed with snow and we did not get into the
mouth and the same thing happened with the yerba mate
it had been almost a month and something and
we begin to feel back what
that were the flavors are not the
smells we had totally lost and
it was necessary to go arming different
teams as a team that was
devoted to the envelope asleep in over sleeping
happens in this story as something
totally inconsequential and yet
was une for me it was a hinge element
because it allowed us from the moment
that we did the power to sleep to the
weather, that is, at first it was
impossible practically we almost died
frozen and that’s where we’re going
dominating where are we going
experience this was all trial and error
trying things that’s why he said they were
many failures because we try 6 8 10
expeditions for different
different things we were doing tests
in wet feet we tried to do
like a foal boots
all things that are given to us do not
we put all the hope possible and we
we come down but nevertheless of each
one of those expeditions we went
learning and we were improving the
next expedition improving the
next exposure and that’s why when
they talk about the final supervision if it was the
final because we succeeded a success and
a number of failures to death
our captain who died in the avalanche
we are without the great leader without the
most important part in making
decisions and there begins to distribute
a little bit between the first states that
they were the big ones
the great heads of all this the
expeditionaries were stolen by a
side and the rest that accompanied a
one another according to their
convenience and that’s how the
first leaders but in turn for
appearing leaders in different
occasions that were necessary and that is
an important thing because many times
feels to talk about whether the leaders
born or are made here they were doing
the measure of needs appeared a
leader the on 2000 appears a leader
among the people who were in charge of
clean the plane appeared no leader
in the food and to the extent that they were not
most needed those Bolivian leaders the
They were one more level and so it was
fundamental because in addition the group had
enough humility to be able
accept what the other was saying
we were all university or
pre-university so everyone had
his handling his idea of what could happen
however he abided in principle what
says the captain he complied after he
accepted as we take what
along these latter it is of these 72 days
a number of decisions
that is another of the important things we
We wrong a number of times but
the most important thing of all that is not the
wrong
but having the ability to
get up and say I was wrong in this
we go to the other side and that’s another one
the things when we take
decisions
we own our destiny and we
it happened exactly the same
we owned our destiny in the
as we make a decision and the
cork times theory that I do what
others do I see what they are doing and
what will suit me
and that was fundamental for us
as well
the power to enhance us to be able to have another
option
another plan we always had a plan
failure is good this does not work
we go to the other side we do such a thing
it did not work or for the other side and in
how do we encourage them to
get out of there our great leimotiv was
return to our families
It was going back to our homes with
our parents from behind mother with
our brothers and that for us
it was like something that drove us
continually
I want to talk just want
back down and that was crucial
for all of us and we all had that same month
the same push
on the other hand also if you
they look at either an ego today or individual each
one had the obligation to take care of himself
to be able to give things to the group and not like
usually the group is asked
things to benefit 1 and then
everything was taken care of to be in good
conditions and power to offer things to
the people who are doing well in the life of the
people who are looking for situations
what he wants he needs and if not
find
they are made from the factory us at
long the 72 days we were
continuously making and doing and
thinking to get out of there
then it’s not a new thing that
can say that the great mountains are
they go up step by step making small
things
the last expedition when we went up
tomorrow they were just west facing chile
we had to go with nando and roberto
making small steps the mountain
Climbing up putting your foot making a
stirrup we climbed one meter
we did for the other and another stirrup
we climbed another meter collapsed and we
gave up
almost 30 years later in one of those
conversations that we have
I feel there is no black sky because I do not
it was much heavier as the backpack
more heavy
if when they came I told them guys
tomorrow they go
that morning the cousins came and I
they say that you have your backpack roberto while
backpack nando is your backpack the backpack
I have weighed between 30 and 40 kilos
I put my backpack and march up
of the mountain
It never would have occurred to me
would happen today record how is the
Roberto backpack or how is the backpack
from nando and weighed a lot, it weighed little
different and it’s really the backpack that
we carry ourselves every day
it does not matter which side weighs less or not
have backpack I have to take
it is mine that is to say that was my mountain
if this is what the mountain range is
that fight that we have every day
everyone was willing to sacrifice
and it was very necessary and on the other hand the
discipline that also although there was
some discussion but they were not major
except for those things there were no big big
differences in the mountain
on the other hand one of the things that stops
me fundamental because they speak of miracle
they speak that we are touched by a wand
magical reality
In summary I can say that the
expeditionaries consider that it was a
triumph of the human spirit and those who
they left the plane thinks it was a
miracle
I am of the theory that the human being
it has incredible inner strength that
is able to support a quantity of
things
in fact from above
temperatures that we were able to
endure that was less as desired and
30-40 the cold threshold we do not know to what
iodine level or level on the threshold of
pain
we do not know where there were not people who
he will complain that he was very wrong in his
moment but will be able to endure a
amount of things and when we go out and
we had that betrayal that was cut that
you have that the other where we in
this moment we felt was not
important
we were playing with our life and that
makes one support things
you will tell what difference there are layers
What a voice I am capable of supporting many
more things than any of you
that is another of the things that is about
transmit the survivors are not
different than any of you are
same as the difference that we
we went through a test that was the
mountain and we know where our
limit but the limit of you do not
they know they do not know the tremendous ability
they have to make a quantity of
things and from and grabbing challenges
sometimes we stay and this one we stay
with the idea
one of the worst things is to have a
idea and not carry it out for fear of
failure
that is, one has to venture
that go harder and stronger
that go further that strength that the
human being is brutal in the club we have
a small box that says many times
we believe destiny and pray we hope
that things happen
we forget the most important thing to believe
in ourselves we settle the
place to risk without thinking that
every day that passes will never return anything
is done nothing is impossible
not even the impossible
everything depends on that willpower
that we have inside to say yes I can
to each challenge many times they tell you that
the capacity we have is 10 per
percent the 20 or the 30 crossed but all
the rest that we have is incredible that
So if we pass where
can reach
I know what my limit is and that’s why I am capable
to face a lot of things and I
I invite you to also face them
why it happens here but much much
that many young people surely
university or not but the past in the
Elysium and secondary I do not know how they say
that suddenly demands to read a book and
his nonsense like that when they Khaled
You say it’s not so bad I could read some
another one and in faculty of by the saler
another amount of books and you are progressing
and you go forward and you realize that you are
able that I am capable that is capable
nobody can say what I’m going to do
great things if I’m not able to test
me in the girls and is which one to
times our parents especially we
They put or send us small things
small tests that I did because
I have to do this because I have a house
one or another post costs me a lot
however, that kind of thing is going
tempering shaking theme for more
go ahead because life is not easy
nobody said that it was easy does not stop and he
They told him that but we never
It was easy and it’s up and here because here
we were not touched by a wand either
magic and we are different
we have to work just like you
we have with our families we have
a lot of things are always about
give them something more and be one step ahead
and not stay and that impulse also
agreement that there was a priest who said it
the match ends with the final whistle and
the Irish priest we talked to each other
but for this cure stupidity is not
saying
and it was not really giving
life lesson that what we have to
to do is to continue to follow up
feel that final whistle
thank you very much
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