Plane Crash in the Andes | The Climb | 4
Against The Odds
Wondery
4.7 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In a final attempt to escape the Andes, Nando and Roberto have headed east to pursue safety. The men face a difficult journey as the weather takes a turn for the worst, and their food supply dwindles. Back at the fuselage, their teammates wait for rescuers to arrive. The remaining survivors have accepted their fate: they're all doomed if the two men don't find civilization. There is only one option left. Roberto and Nando must survive their hike out through one of the largest mountain ranges in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to against the odds at free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:15.4 | Nando Parado straps a pair of snowshoes to his feet and looks up at a pure blue sky. |
| 0:21.5 | He's been stranded high in the Andy's mountains for two months now. |
| 0:25.5 | He and his rugby team were flying from Uruguay to Chile for a match when their plane crashed. |
| 0:30.7 | And Nando and the 15 other survivors have heard on their one working radio that officials have called off the search for them. |
| 0:38.5 | Now, he's about to leave the safety of the plane's fuselage to try to climb down into Chile to get help. |
| 0:45.1 | If he comes back, it will be with a rescue team. If he doesn't come back, it will be because the mountain has killed him. |
| 0:52.1 | Nando is waiting for Roberto Canessa and Antonio Tintin Vizentine to join him. |
| 0:57.8 | Out of all the remaining survivors, Nando chose these boys to climb with. |
| 1:02.6 | They're simply the strongest ones left. And he needs them to be tough. |
| 1:06.6 | They're going to have to fight the mountain and its brutal cold. |
| 1:10.1 | But for now, the temperature is above freezing and the air is calm, a perfect day for climbing. |
| 1:16.8 | Though Nando's still prepared for the frigid temperatures he knows will come. |
| 1:21.0 | He's wearing a woman's pair of woolen slacks under three pairs of jeans and he's layered on six sweaters. |
| 1:28.2 | To top it all off, he's wearing a jacket and a special hood he cut from his sister's fur coat. |
| 1:34.0 | He's also wearing four pairs of socks under two plastic supermarket bags and rugby boots. |
| 1:40.3 | If the cold kills him, at least he will have put up a fight. |
| 1:44.4 | As he stands outside the fuselage waiting for Roberto and Tintin, Carlitos Paez, one of the youngest members of the rugby team, jumps out to say goodbye. |
| 1:54.6 | They start to hug, but Nando pulls away. I almost forgot. |
| 1:59.8 | He swings off his knapsack, reaches into the outer pocket and pulls out a pair of tiny red baby shoes. |
| 2:07.6 | His mother bought them at the airport for his older sister back in Uruguay. |
| 2:11.6 | She was three months pregnant when they left. His mother and other sister Suzie died in the crash, so these shoes are the last gift from them. |
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