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Nando Parrado Featured Survivor of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571; New York Times Bestselling Author; Rugby Legend; Hero; Inspiration for "Alive" Film
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Survivors of 1972 Uruguay plane crash revisit their tale of going to the extremes to live
An ABC News Studios documentary talks with survivors 50 years later.
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What the Andes Miracle Teaches About Leadership
Fifty years after the “Miracle of the Andes,” a University of Pennsylvania lecturer looks back at the harrowing plane crash and extracts lessons in leadership from the accounts of survivors.
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Spain's J.A. Bayona, director of “The Impossible” and “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” is close to wrapping production on the Spanish leg of Netflix's “Society of the Snow,” (“La sociedad de la nieve”), one of the Spanish-speaking world's most ambitious upcoming features for 2023.
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Case Study: "Virtual Made It Possible"
Case Study: GDA connects Burgundy Asset Management, Ltd. with Nando Parrado for a wildly successful virtual event within 3 weeks.
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'When you have only one option... it's easier than you think'
On October 13, 1972, an airplane carrying 45 passengers and crew members crashed in a remote area of the Andes Mountains.
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Alive: Rugby Team's Fabled Survival In Andes
Sky News, October 2015: As Uruguay take on England, Sky speaks to one of the Uruguayan rugby players involved in a miracle tale of survival in the 1970s.
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How Surviving a Plane Crash Applies to Business and Life
Vancity Buzz, May 2015: When Nando Parrado was a teenager, the plane he was travelling in with his elite rugby team crashed head-on into the frozen Andes Mountains at cruising speed. Only 16 of the 45 passengers on board survived.