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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Nando Parrado: The Miracle of the Andes

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.812.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This episode of “Literally” is unlike any other. Rob Lowe is joined by Nando Parrado, one of the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972. After spending 72 days trapped in the mountains, Nando, along with his friend and teammate, climbed through the Andes mountains for 10 days to find help. Nando Parrado talks to Rob Lowe about his incredible story of survival, faith, and teamwork. They also discuss the new film adaptation of Nando’s experience: the Oscar-nominated 2023 film, "Society of the Snow," now on Netflix. Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at (323) 570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0

I'm just a small Uruguayan in Montevideo, you know speaking one of the top celebrities in the US,

0:09.4

the biggest country in the world and it's so nice. It's wonderful, Roblo. Today we have Nondo Perrato on the show.

0:35.0

Nando Perrato is one of the Uruguayan rugby team members

0:42.1

who crashed in the Andes in 1972 and for 72

0:47.6

for 72 days survived eventually they all had to eat and use their fallen comrades as food.

0:58.8

He then with one other man,

1:01.5

hiked out of the Andes mountains, and eventually found help.

1:06.8

It's a very famous story.

1:08.1

It's been documented in many books.

1:10.9

Currently, the movie Society of the Snow is out and is nominated for an Oscar and is one of the

1:18.1

best movies I've ever seen and this man's story it's a And this is a doozy, pull up a seat, for coming on the show. I mean, the journey that has brought us here together today

1:45.8

is beyond imagining, wouldn't you say?

1:49.9

Yeah, I think the journey that has brought me to be here, I shouldn't be sitting down this chair.

1:58.8

I shouldn't be speaking to you.

2:00.9

I shouldn't be alive. I shouldn't be alive I shouldn't have a second part of my only life but I'm here

2:09.7

so let's make the best of it and enjoy the time that we have together because time is for me the most important thing.

2:19.0

Time doesn't come back. That's the biggest richness that you can have time at the

2:26.4

The darkest moments on the mountain my sense is I watched the movie last night and I've read some of your quotes over the years

2:36.0

There were many times where you thought you were dead and

2:40.3

Once you die like that, you accept death, you have accepted its inevitability and that

2:48.7

it's upon you, when you get life then, how does it change your view of life?

2:55.8

You know I died many times there. I died on a plane crash. I died of injuries. I died of suffocation. I died of injuries I died of suffocation I died of excess of being too exhaust I died of

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