The man on horseback—a Chilean arriero named Sergio Catalán—picked it up. He read it. He looked up at the ragged, skeletal figures on the far bank.
But Nando Parrado refused to be a ghost. He looked at the mountain peaks surrounding them. "The plane is white. The snow is white. They'll never see us from above. But on the other side of those mountains… Chile. Green valleys. Roads. People. We have to walk." Searching for- Society of the snow in-All Categ...
Nando said, "Then let's die walking."
Roberto Canessa, the medical student, was the first to speak the unthinkable. "There is meat out there. It's human. But it's protein. It's life." The man on horseback—a Chilean arriero named Sergio