Nando Parrado | |
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| Born | Fernando Seler Parrado Dolgay 9 December 1949 Montevideo, Uruguay |
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| Education | Jim Russell Racing Driver School |
| Alma mater | Stella Maris College (Montevideo) |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Subject | The 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains |
| Notable works | Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (with Vince Rause) |
Fernando "Nando" Seler Parrado Dolgay (born 9 December 1949) is a Uruguayan businessman, producer, motivational speaker, author, television presenter, former rugby player and a racing driver. He is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa, climbed through the Andes mountains over a 10-day period to find help.[1]
- ^ "Speaker Nando Parrado". BBC Group (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 February 2024.