Since there were two extra seats on the plane, one player, Nando Parrado, invited his mom and sister along. Mid flight, the plane slammed into a mountain in the middle of the snow-bound Andes.

After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out. Show more After crashing high in the Andes, Nando Parrado had to go to the extreme to get out. In 1972 ...

It was a phrase Nando Parrado referenced three or four times as he regaled a crowd of 1,900 Monday with his tale of surviving a plane crash in the Andes as part of the H.N. and Frances Berger ...

Fernando Parrado, 74, spent two months trapped in the mountains with the other survivors. Fernando "Nando" Seler Parrado Dolgay is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

Show more In 1972, when the plane carrying 22-year-old Uruguayan Nando Parrado and his rugby team came down deep in the Andes mountain range in South America, they were left for dead. Rescue teams ...