I Am Alive: Surviving The Andes Plane Crash

Life is unpredictable with all of its twists and turns; it can turn the best situation into the worst. There are people are always prepared for the worst, and those who aren’t. While it may seem though that all the odds are against the people who are poor planners, they still make it work; same can go for the people who are prepared for everything, things can get ugly if they are caught off guard. Like Jack London had once said, “Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well”. Meaning that it doesn't matter if someone has everything or nothing, life can still have obstacles that can mean life or death, it's what they do in those situations that make all the differences. In those situations, it would

There are moments in life where it will throw the most difficult situation in someone’s face, and all they have is the thoughts in their head. How they use the information to improve their situation, is up to them. In Brad Osborne’s documentary, I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash, he retells the story of a plane crash in the Andes Mountain range from Nando Parrado perspective. Nando Parrado’s mother and sister all joined him with his rugby team on a flight to Chile for a game. But on Friday, the 13 of October 1972 their pilot had miscalculated and crashed landed in the Andes Mountain range. They were never prepared for the cold, harsh weather of the mountains, or the loss of their friends and family. Because they were so unprepared, they had to be resourceful and use their heads to survive. Since one of the had past knowledge of radios, they did their best to repair the one they already had. They fixed it to where they were able to hear everything that was within range. If one of them had never been able to repair the one there, they would have lost hope of survival earlier and had given up. Before the pilot had died, he had told the group where everything was, particularly that Chile was west of where they are. Parrado and his friend, Roberto Canessa, both separated from the group heading west, in hopes reaching civilization in Chile. Intelligence in this situation was used to listen