Fernando parrado and roberto canessa
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"I had to survive at 19 so I could help others with their own "mountains" so that they could also have a chance".
Bio
At 19 with his friend Nando Parrado they shocked the world when - after surviving a plane crash and two months of being stranded in the snow - they walked out for 10 days to find help and save the remaining 14 survivors, trapped in the fuselage in the middle of the Andes mountains.
Dr. Roberto Canessa MD, Cardiologist and Pediatrician was awarded the National Award of Medicine in Uruguay three times. In 2015 he was named Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. He is also a Keynote Speaker for leadership and collaborates with an important network of outstanding colleagues around the world.
The Survivor
October 13th, 1972.
Los Andes
On 13 October 1972, when he was just 19 years old and was a second-year Medical School student in Uruguay, he was able to escape he tragedy unscathed. This made him very active and determined in carrying out activities to escape that trap. Fi
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Roberto Canessa
Uruguayan rugby union footballer
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Canessa and the second or maternal family name is Urta.
Roberto Canessa | |
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Roberto Canessa in 2010 | |
| Born | Roberto Jorge Canessa Urta (1953-01-17) 17 January 1953 (age 72) Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Alma mater | University of the Republic |
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| Spouse | Laura Surraco (m. 1976) |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | robertocanessa.com |
Roberto Jorge Canessa Urta (born 17 January 1953) is a Uruguayan paediatriccardiologist, motivational speaker, and former rugby player. He is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash in the Andes mountains on 13 October 1972.[1] He was portrayed by Josh Hamilton in the 1993 feature film Alive and by Argentine actor MatÃas Recalt in the 2023 Spanish feature film Society of the Snow.[2]
Early life and education
Canessa Urta was born in Montevideo
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Stranded in the Andes
When it comes to inspirational books, it’s hard to beat Alive, Piers Paul Read’s 1974 account of the survival and eventual rescue of 16 survivors of a plane crash in the Andes. Roberto Canessa, one of two men who hiked out of the mountains and then led authorities to the survivors’ location, wisely doesn’t try to beat it in I Had to Survive, choosing instead to write (with Pablo Vierci) a complementary account of the ordeal and its effect on the subsequent four decades of his life.
It’s been quite a life, with Canessa forging a career as a pediatric cardiologist in his native Uruguay. The book is his way of expressing how, as Vierci puts it, “his ordeal on the mountain had shaped his life.”
For the record, Canessa wastes no time addressing what, for many, was the most salient feature of Alive: how the survivors had to consume “the only nourishment that was keeping us alive, the lifeless bodies of our friends.” But he has a larger purpose than explaining that decision. Rather than consigning his or
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