"We walked for days, until I stopped seeing snow, if I stopped seeing snow, I stopped seeing death, out of nowhere I was in a 5 star hotel, I had a river running clean water, grass, flowers, fruits... "It was when I realized how much we ask and demand from life, and how little we need to be happy." - Roberto Canessa -
The two were climbing and wandering through mountains for 10 DAYS while being malnourished, weakened and Nando said this was the time when he lost the rest of his faith to stay alive. Ironically it was exactly that moment that kept him even further.
Every time I climb a mountain, or face an adversity in life, I remenber this story and am inspired to soldier on. It is a story that inspires me to never surrender. It is a story of hope. Every one of us who has come here must share the same spirit.
Side note about this movie: "The film omits Sergio Catalán, the Chilean muleteer who found Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa when they descended from the mountains to seek help. Catalan was the first person to help them, and to this day, the real survivors of the tragedy travel to Chile to visit him and thank him for saving their lives." (from IMDB)
I like this movie(even though it’s cheesy as hell now that I’ve seen Society of the Snow) but apparently this version omits a LOT and most of the survivors are not very happy with it. Apparently it was not as throughly researched as the book that SotS was based off of.
@@Omega1867 this movie divided many survivors. Some of them attempted to Stop the production of the film altogether. But since then didn’t need their permission, as the production had the rights to the Piers Paul Read book, they reluctantly attended to collaborate with the film as it was going to become a reality. The worst part of the movie is not even the survivors but those who died. All of their names were changed to avoid any legal problems with their families.
@@robertoperezcastro6130 Which shows that it’s was all greed on the studios part. They didn’t care that it was a true story, they didn’t care about the feelings of the people who were there and experienced it, they didn’t care about honoring the ones who didn’t make it. They just wanted to sensationalize the hell out of it and most of the survivors didn’t want that. At least JA Bayona showed respect and did everything carefully. He honored the story so well that Carlitos(I think it was) stated publicly that they saw him as another member of the group and their extended family. I’d say there’s no higher praise than that.
@@Omega1867 I don’t know if it was greed or not. I’m not a producer and I certainly don’t know how it was in 1993. Being from South America, it’s not surprising to me that the producers are more meticulous when it comes to a survival story in the US or the UK, and rather stick to a book in English when it comes to another part of the world. When I watched Costa Gavra’s Missing, focused on event that happened in my country, it was appalling to me that the people on the movie had the rather Mexican accent rather than a Chilean one. It’s like portraying someone from Yorkshire by having someone from Boston instead. I don’t know if it was greed or not, but they did cut corners both in the narrative and in the cinematography. Those are clearly not the Andes or a Chilean Valley, but the Rockies and British Columbia.
@@Omega1867 on the other hand, it can be easy to take for granted the dedication and commitment to the survivors, and the deceased that the Spanish director had. To have that dedication can be quite expensive for the production and can delay any movie several years as it was in this recent case. for any movie, the producer wants at least a return on the investment that doesn’t have them lose money instead of making it. What Bayona did in the recent movie is something no studio would be willing to afford and wait in 1993.
You mean the Mexican version? If so that piece of junk it is horrible! I am Uruguayan and it's an offense to our identity and culture! And to the story itself!
I'm with you, the mexican movie did many mistakes, the two biggest ones are: 1) for some reason the plane had all of its windows broken and for some reason the survivors didn't freeze to death :/ 2) in the expedition to the tail almost half of the survivors (10+ people) walked to make the radio work, instead of the 4 who tried to do the job, the 4th one was the "expert" in electronics who didn't know nothing about UHF radios. But the mexican version did something interesting, it portrayed the operations of the SAR (Servicio Aereo de Rescate / Aerial Rescue Service) and some of the expeditions of Carlos' father. But overall the movie was a disaster, and to anyone thinking that it had mistakes because there was no data about what really happened there (because the movie was done 4 years after the accident), let me tell you that the book "Alive" written by Piers Paul Read was aviable 2 years before the movie (I know because my father has the book) and the 1993 film Alive is based on that book. Of course the Frank Marshal film has many mistakes too (for example the tail being almost intact when in reality there was not much of it after the crash)
The mountain they climbed was called "Mount Seler", in honor of Nando's late father. The glacier the plane crashed into is now called "The Glacier of Tears"
Sorry to correct you but the glacier's name existed long before the accident. Because certain minerals in the rocks and dust can cause ocular irritation.
"We walked for days, until I stopped seeing snow, if I stopped seeing snow, I stopped seeing death, out of nowhere I was in a 5 star hotel, I had a river running clean water, grass, flowers, fruits... "It was when I realized how much we ask and demand from life, and how little we need to be happy." - Roberto Canessa -
Funny you mention the pandemic… it was during the pandemic they filmed the society of the snow…. Basically the greatest movie about this story… now on netflix
Man, when you see that river and jus think "YES! Follow the river, rivers always lead somewhere!" and then that expanse of green after so long in the mountains....
I was young I am from Uruguay if you think the movie is inspiring imagine the whole country ..searching for hope ...after so many day accepting the worst and one day you listen in the radio They are Alive they found them...
I love this movie, I really do, but the only thing that let it down, the ONLY thing, was how quickly it combed over the final journey of Nando and Canessa. In reality was a gruelling 10 days for them, but the movie made it seem like it was very little (only 2 days) as Nando says they'd been there 70 days. Still love the movie.
Agreed - The way that the final journey iss described in Paul Piers Reid's book as well as Nando's, it feels like they barely made it. Their final rations of food were rotting, and Canessa could barely move any further (as well as being stricken with diahrea)
I agree dear -- the film was made by them and that is what they wanted x thank you for telling the truth. Everytime the film is out - it was out on Netflix in the UK people like me buy the book. I remember when the cannibalism part of it was contraversial, nothing is anymore.
p.a happy Sunday 13th March hahahaha! seriously - even the numbers on the plane come to 13 x no Coincidence on those incredible mountains. x I miss those days wathcing films like this with my Dad x
@@retsuza That is why only Nando found the muleteer and could communicate with him through the stone with a paper that the muleteer threw to him over the river. In the letter Nando wrote he says: " I have a friend up in the mountain, hurt" and he was talking about Canessa. Let´s consider also that Nando had to run along the river so as to communicate with the muleteer better, in the way of throwing the stone with the letter. He had strenth enough to do that. Nando saved them all.
"Maybe, but if we die, we're going to die walking." I don't know if that is exactly word for word what was said between Nando and Roberto, but that simple line has always stuck with me, and has helped me through some tough times over the past 30 years.
(Taken from online) On the summit, Parrado told Canessa, "We may be walking to our deaths, but I would rather walk to meet my death than wait for it to come to me." Canessa agreed. "You and I are friends, Nando. We have been through so much. Now let's go die together."
"We walked for days, until I stopped seeing snow, if I stopped seeing snow, I stopped seeing death, out of nowhere I was in a 5 star hotel, I had a river running clean water, grass, flowers, fruits... "It was when I realized how much we ask and demand from life, and how little we need to be happy." - Roberto Canessa -
@@dancemaniaco It wasn't out of nowhere. The running clean water, grass, flowers, fruits were the fruits of your labor. You did the work and reaped the rewards. I'm glad you showed yourself and us what willpower can do. You executed the old saying, "If you can't make the mountain come to you then go to the mountain. I loved how in the movie you were sunbathing while Nando was plotting to walk out of there. Even in the midst of death you were enjoying the basic sunshine. I'm really glad you made it. Say a prayer for me if you please. I am having a hard time organizing myself and picking and passing the qualifications for the right job. Thank you for writing me. It comes at a time when I feel alone and have to regroup and need some inspiration.
The inaccuracy here is that Nando was actually the tallest, strongest and most muscular of the passengers by *a lot* It really makes this scene different if you picture it like that.
When they finally reached the green land, I was finally able to breathe watching this movie. Wow! One of those movies that truly “has you” when watching it.
I felt exactly the same way when I first saw this movie almost 25 years ago. That's why I have been coming back to the movie again and again and why it became my favourite movie.
I saw it at the theater 25 years ago as well. As close to a religious experience as I'd ever had, at least on an emotional level. Bought it when it came out on VHS, then read Nando's book when it came out years later....even more amazing than the movie in describing the awesome effort and courage it took to climb up, and then down the other steep side of those first peaks.....yes....never give up, anything is possible.
I need to seriously read that book, going to by the end of this year definitely! Really there's so much they've said about this and take some things hugely seriously with what's said like the person who wrote the script there's a saying he had in that (though was of course an actor speaking the lines) which I take incredibly seriously. Also with this clip I myself (though not being confronted with a situation even remotely like this obviously so I am not even going to bother patronising them about it) but I'd have absolutely no problem if I should die from what ever accident or whatever and it meant others needing to eat the dead I'd be fine with them eating me. The way I see it exactly like is there's no difference to me with organ donation, if I was the reason why some people survived because it meant eating me then I am perfectly fine with it.
@@dougafir51 can you please provide the details of the book. I want to make sure I purchase the one you are referencing here in case he has written many. What was it called? Thanks in advance 👍
I have watched this 90x at at least. This scene still tears me up. When you think your week or month is going bad, just watch this movie. IMHO this is the best movie/documentary ever made. Everyone should watch this at least once in their life..
Indeed my friend, came here after lisening to Ave Maria in another video:). This scene here (its magnificent, it's God) and Ave Maria in the end made this one movie I have not forgotten.
Wise, poetic, inspire his friend, by noticing which mountains have no snow and knowledge where the sun rises and sets and knowledge of geography where there is a valley, deeper understanding why he lived so long, appreciation of God and nature and beauty. Not only Alive because he survived but Alive to appreciate.
Since I read the book when I was 13,I'm 51 now, I have been in Nando conference, met Dr Cannesa because is my collegue, I have seen the movie a hundred of time, and have been a great inspiration this story to me and my family lives
I never saw this movie until recently but it's one of the most inspirational things I ever saw. The sheer impossibility of what they went through was astounding. I've been up in this kind of environment in CO....though when I got injured and stuck at 12000ft, I knew I at least still had a phone. This movie made me cry so many times from just sheer pure emotion.
This is true. When Nando reached the summit he looked over hoping to see green fields maybe a town. Instead he saw mountains all around him, he reasoned he would most likely die but he resolved himself to keep on going. If he was going to die he was going to die walking.
just my take on why the final escape / 10 day trip was glossed over.... it was one of those sacred moments, that was only between Nando and Canessa and God, leading them out. The movie made it a precious moment. It can't be seen, it can only be felt.
It wasn't anywhere near as easy as this movie makes it look. They walked with snow shoes made of plane seats and wires and wore plexiglass sunglasses. With the low oxygen and at times the snow was waist high it was a struggle for each step. The movie omits running into a man on a horse who brought back horsemen the next day to bring them to a village.
There's no way the movie could've included all those tiny details. The movie was about the guys' struggle TOGETHER. When Nando coaxes Roberto to come along with him, THAT is the emotional climax of the story. John Patrick Shanley is a great writer.
There is only an emotional climax because FIRST there were PHYSICAL CLIMAXES: the deaths of the people after the avalanche MADE Nando DETERMINED to leave at all costs because in the movie or the documentary he says these mountains are like gods that want to kill them until no one is left. Nando is convinced the only way out is to walk out. The deaths are BOTH the physical climax AND the EMOTIONAL CLIMAX. In the movie Nando says, "Maybe we'll die, but we're going to die walking." Nando is quite literally and figuratively set in his way. He has made his mind up. He is committed to don't stop til you drop. After walking and seeing for himself where he is and using the sunset and his own eyes and his own mind to see the mountains with melted snow and reason that is the direction to go in, he has charted his course.
I agree with you. I'm 39. I read Piers Paul Read's book "Alive" 3 decades ago, right around the time this film came out, when I was 9 years old. It will always be the definitive drama of this subject.@@priscillasalzberg5349
'You see where the sun's going to set, that way's west and to the west are the green valleys of Chile'. Surely the most inspirational lines ever spoken in a desperate bid to survive.
@@joshchelf7729those people can rest easy knowing their loved ones live on in the lives of the survivors children and grandchildren, and that they did not die in vain. And fwiw there have been interviews done to several family members of those who were eaten and they wished nothing but the best to the survivors. Your pathetic trolling attempts failed.
34°45'9"S 70°16'46"W Coordinates valley of tears. West Highland where up Nando, Tintin and Canessa. South Mountain where the plane hit. View east towards the Sosneado and place of the plane's tail. Mount Seler and overlooking both mountains without snow saw Nando, and the route down the mountain where Nando and Canessa.
Wow the fast running in the end....... did they really think the 2 guys would have the energy to do that? They fast forward that whole part of their yourney. Hollywood at it's finest. The new movie is so much better and I actually had tears in my eyes at the end.
I saw the movie recently because of the Supertouch (Klute) EP The Dreams, the song called Alive have the sample of this fragment specifically. The movie is Awesome
That’s funny that they’re still so clean shaven and kinda polished looking after what, 60ish days on the mountain here. And it’s a shame that this version skipped the 10 day trek of Nando and Roberto in my opinion.
interesting though, Nando himself said he had given up when he reached the peak and saw only mountains, Roberto was the one who told him to keep going and they agreed to die crossing the mountains
Yes he said he had given up, but also told roberto that they needed to keep going with his though process being he didnt want to come back to the plane where they would have had to eat his mother and sister. They both agreed to go.
+Drew Glace Wrong. Nando felt desperate for a moment after reach the summit and only see more mountains around. Then he assumed (started to fully accept) the "fact" (conclusion) that he was going to die there. However, he decided to keep going/walking ( !!! ) even if that was (apparently) pointless, so Nando does Not give up, he used his "acceptance" to decide keep going, step by step... obviously a part of him "knew" that (regardless the final outcome) keep going wasn't totally "pointless". Even with his fear and against all "logical" ods, there is always Hope....The possibility of a positive outcome, especially when one listen and use his Inner/whole Self (intuition, subconscious mind, etc). All these men, but especially Nando in that extremely amazing walking... is/are the living proof of power of the human mind, taking full responsability for our choices and listen our Inner-whole-Self.
Just to clarify, my previous comment was for +gotothelight . Regardless that, these individuals, especially Nando, were amazing in showing us how a "simply" human being can achieve and/or manifest when choose Life in the more depht way of the word. Respect!
Nando Paredo is one of those amazing people who rose to the occasion of a tested beyond imagination. It's too bad the film makers seemed to exhaust the budget and had to hurriedly wrap the story up, because they made it seem like a quick walk out after this scene. It took them 11 DAYS to walk out. A couple of fun facts about their ordeal...That road Canessa said he though he saw? It was actually a road. And, they decided to go up and over instead of down because they thought down would take them deeper into the mountains. Well, if they went down, they would have run smack dab into a hotel about 10 miles away. In his biography, Nando says the actual quote was, "I would rather face death walking towards it, than wait for it come to me while I did nothing." One final fact...years later, an expedition of professional mountaineers set out to recreate the walkout with professional gear and clothing. They ended the attempt within a few days because they deemed it too dangerous. Oh...and when Nando gave directions to the helicopter pilot flying back to the crash site, the pilot at first refused to fly where Nando said was the path they took, because he was certain Nando was mistaken. He felt that no one could have taken that path. Nando had to beg the pilot to believe him.
Thanks for that info, everything to do with the story is important and fascinating. However I believe the hotel you mentioned, although it was in fact there, was essentially abandoned, not in service. So if they found it, they would have better shelter, however still no food, no communication, and no way home...
@@Mrs.Currie You had me wondering, so I rewatched the documentary that mentioned it. The hotel was actually 18 miles away, but it was still in operation when the plane crashed. It is now an abandoned ruin. In the documentary, they do mention there was a large river between them and the hotel and that they probably wouldn't have been able to cross it to reach the hotel, though.
Yes, the theory that if they'd gone east they would've been rescued earlier has already been debunked by experts and people who know the place. First they would've come across the River Atuel, impossible to cross at that time of year due to the thaw - that year's snowfalls were the worst in the Andes in recent decades. The hotel was abandoned since 1953, and then they would've had to walk over 65 kilometres (40 miles) of rough terrain to get to the nearest road, which was a place almost as desolate as the crash site (very few people passed by all year round). Daniel Fernández Strauch (survivor and one of the leaders in the mountains) confirms this in an interview made last year, and there's a video on YT showing the route with satellite images. Nowadays, the hotel is a stopover point for people visiting the crash site.
These movie is good in present a general view of this story, but it is EXTREMELY soft in showing the extremely desperate physical state (I.e.: mouth wounds due take ice, general weakness, extreme skinny state of each one of them, and worse for whom were wound in the crash, etc) and mental the had to suffered on that long 2 and more months there. These man, including whose past away there, are truly amazing individuals. Canessa and Nando, especially, are heros in my book. The "simply" fact of keep going one more day in those circumstances, shows a courage that deserves to be learned and respect (especially given the fact that "attracted" a huge positive/"miraculous" outcome). We all have those capabilities inside...!
Lo único para reclamarle a esta película, es q no incluyeron al arriero chileno don Sergio Catalán, héroe insoslayable de está gran historia. Q.E.P.D. don Sergio.
Si no hubieran visto a Catalan, no hubieran vivido. Iban totalmente desauceados y a Catalan le tomo' varias horas a caballo para llegar al poblado. Ellos no hubieran podido cruzar el rio y no tenian ni idea donde estaba el poblado. Catalan fue un angel que Dios les envio'.
This is a remarkable story. But in this scene, shouldn’t they be referring to the 60 days (not 70 days) they had survived? Eventually it was a bit over 70 days. But at the point, they hadn’t done the 10 day hike through the mountains
It gives me hope that the Malaysian airplane people might be alive. When human survival instinct set in, it's something that neither of us will ever experience, unless ur ever starving to death or close to death. I feel that although many think that it's passengers are dead, we have to have hope, and think that it is possible for someone to be alive.
The Malaysian plane was taken to a hanger and the people/crew were killed. There was man on board that owned a patent (I forget for what) but the Rothchilds family ended up owning it afterwards With today's technology it's a little complete joke they can't find an entire plane. They can pinpoint cellphones via GPS satellites.
A story of faith.. this scene when I look back was impactful when I was being saved by God.. put your trust in Jesus and he will change your hearts desires and grant you eternal life.. glory B to God..
"We walked for days, until I stopped seeing snow, if I stopped seeing snow, I stopped seeing death, out of nowhere I was in a 5 star hotel, I had a river running clean water, grass, flowers, fruits... "It was when I realized how much we ask and demand from life, and how little we need to be happy."
- Roberto Canessa -
The two were climbing and wandering through mountains for 10 DAYS while being malnourished, weakened and Nando said this was the time when he lost the rest of his faith to stay alive. Ironically it was exactly that moment that kept him even further.
Every time I climb a mountain, or face an adversity in life, I remenber this story and am inspired to soldier on. It is a story that inspires me to never surrender. It is a story of hope. Every one of us who has come here must share the same spirit.
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Right. You really don't know what your capable of until you have to find the will inside.
Amen brother
Congratulation.
Beautiful vision.
I'm from BRASIL.
@@12dejunho43 A rich Brazilian.
I love Ethan hawkes acting
Side note about this movie:
"The film omits Sergio Catalán, the Chilean muleteer who found Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa when they descended from the mountains to seek help. Catalan was the first person to help them, and to this day, the real survivors of the tragedy travel to Chile to visit him and thank him for saving their lives." (from IMDB)
I like this movie(even though it’s cheesy as hell now that I’ve seen Society of the Snow) but apparently this version omits a LOT and most of the survivors are not very happy with it. Apparently it was not as throughly researched as the book that SotS was based off of.
@@Omega1867 this movie divided many survivors. Some of them attempted to Stop the production of the film altogether. But since then didn’t need their permission, as the production had the rights to the Piers Paul Read book, they reluctantly attended to collaborate with the film as it was going to become a reality. The worst part of the movie is not even the survivors but those who died. All of their names were changed to avoid any legal problems with their families.
@@robertoperezcastro6130 Which shows that it’s was all greed on the studios part. They didn’t care that it was a true story, they didn’t care about the feelings of the people who were there and experienced it, they didn’t care about honoring the ones who didn’t make it. They just wanted to sensationalize the hell out of it and most of the survivors didn’t want that.
At least JA Bayona showed respect and did everything carefully. He honored the story so well that Carlitos(I think it was) stated publicly that they saw him as another member of the group and their extended family. I’d say there’s no higher praise than that.
@@Omega1867 I don’t know if it was greed or not. I’m not a producer and I certainly don’t know how it was in 1993. Being from South America, it’s not surprising to me that the producers are more meticulous when it comes to a survival story in the US or the UK, and rather stick to a book in English when it comes to another part of the world. When I watched Costa Gavra’s Missing, focused on event that happened in my country, it was appalling to me that the people on the movie had the rather Mexican accent rather than a Chilean one. It’s like portraying someone from Yorkshire by having someone from Boston instead. I don’t know if it was greed or not, but they did cut corners both in the narrative and in the cinematography. Those are clearly not the Andes or a Chilean Valley, but the Rockies and British Columbia.
@@Omega1867 on the other hand, it can be easy to take for granted the dedication and commitment to the survivors, and the deceased that the Spanish director had. To have that dedication can be quite expensive for the production and can delay any movie several years as it was in this recent case. for any movie, the producer wants at least a return on the investment that doesn’t have them lose money instead of making it. What Bayona did in the recent movie is something no studio would be willing to afford and wait in 1993.
One of those movies you could watch again and again.
jimbob jim This movie is a treasure.
jimbob jim The books are even better
+bawoman Not to mention the 1976 film Survive which also tells the story of the crash, but carries the true South American spirit of the story.
You mean the Mexican version? If so that piece of junk it is horrible! I am Uruguayan and it's an offense to our identity and culture! And to the story itself!
I'm with you, the mexican movie did many mistakes, the two biggest ones are:
1) for some reason the plane had all of its windows broken and for some reason the survivors didn't freeze to death :/
2) in the expedition to the tail almost half of the survivors (10+ people) walked to make the radio work, instead of the 4 who tried to do the job, the 4th one was the "expert" in electronics who didn't know nothing about UHF radios.
But the mexican version did something interesting, it portrayed the operations of the SAR (Servicio Aereo de Rescate / Aerial Rescue Service) and some of the expeditions of Carlos' father.
But overall the movie was a disaster, and to anyone thinking that it had mistakes because there was no data about what really happened there (because the movie was done 4 years after the accident), let me tell you that the book "Alive" written by Piers Paul Read was aviable 2 years before the movie (I know because my father has the book) and the 1993 film Alive is based on that book. Of course the Frank Marshal film has many mistakes too (for example the tail being almost intact when in reality there was not much of it after the crash)
The mountain they climbed was called "Mount Seler", in honor of Nando's late father. The glacier the plane crashed into is now called "The Glacier of Tears"
Sorry to correct you but the glacier's name existed long before the accident. Because certain minerals in the rocks and dust can cause ocular irritation.
If we die, we are gonna die walking ❤️
"We walked for days, until I stopped seeing snow, if I stopped seeing snow, I stopped seeing death, out of nowhere I was in a 5 star hotel, I had a river running clean water, grass, flowers, fruits... "It was when I realized how much we ask and demand from life, and how little we need to be happy."
- Roberto Canessa -
What always got me, was seeing the greenery start. You knew they will win.
I always felt this was a very spiritual movie. Powerful scene.
My parents met Nando while he was telling the story and they said it was extremely emotional :( xx
Meeting Nando is on my bucket list.
He would eat you
wonderful movie to raise your spirits... particularly in the middle of a pandemic
Funny you mention the pandemic… it was during the pandemic they filmed the society of the snow…. Basically the greatest movie about this story… now on netflix
Man, when you see that river and jus think "YES! Follow the river, rivers always lead somewhere!" and then that expanse of green after so long in the mountains....
You feel their joy, like a warmth, I know exactly what you mean
The way these people endured such horrific conditions and had the will to survive is amazing.
The most incredible survival story ever made. The book was amazing
I was young I am from Uruguay if you think the movie is inspiring imagine the whole country ..searching for hope ...after so many day accepting the worst and one day you listen in the radio They are Alive they found them...
I love this movie, I really do, but the only thing that let it down, the ONLY thing, was how quickly it combed over the final journey of Nando and Canessa. In reality was a gruelling 10 days for them, but the movie made it seem like it was very little (only 2 days) as Nando says they'd been there 70 days. Still love the movie.
Agreed - The way that the final journey iss described in Paul Piers Reid's book as well as Nando's, it feels like they barely made it.
Their final rations of food were rotting, and Canessa could barely move any further (as well as being stricken with diahrea)
I agree dear -- the film was made by them and that is what they wanted x thank you for telling the truth. Everytime the film is out - it was out on Netflix in the UK people like me buy the book. I remember when the cannibalism part of it was contraversial, nothing is anymore.
p.a happy Sunday 13th March hahahaha! seriously - even the numbers on the plane come to 13 x no Coincidence on those incredible mountains. x I miss those days wathcing films like this with my Dad x
@@retsuza That is why only Nando found the muleteer and could communicate with him through the stone with a paper that the muleteer threw to him over the river. In the letter Nando wrote he says: " I have a friend up in the mountain, hurt" and he was talking about Canessa. Let´s consider also that Nando had to run along the river so as to communicate with the muleteer better, in the way of throwing the stone with the letter. He had strenth enough to do that. Nando saved them all.
@@LauRa-re9un he's an absolute hero of all senses of the word and if I'd love to shake his hand one day
"Maybe, but if we die, we're going to die walking."
I don't know if that is exactly word for word what was said between Nando and Roberto, but that simple line has always stuck with me, and has helped me through some tough times over the past 30 years.
Me too! I thought I was the only one! Love that line!!! 👊
(Taken from online) On the summit, Parrado told Canessa, "We may be walking to our deaths, but I would rather walk to meet my death than wait for it to come to me." Canessa agreed. "You and I are friends, Nando. We have been through so much. Now let's go die together."
Yeah my favorite line of the movie...never giving in will always be better than surrendering. Surrendering is losing.
@@tlarsen1757honestly even more badass than in the film lol
Wow
"But if we die, we're going to die walking" I love it.
"We walked for days, until I stopped seeing snow, if I stopped seeing snow, I stopped seeing death, out of nowhere I was in a 5 star hotel, I had a river running clean water, grass, flowers, fruits... "It was when I realized how much we ask and demand from life, and how little we need to be happy."
- Roberto Canessa -
@@dancemaniaco It wasn't out of nowhere. The running clean water, grass, flowers, fruits were the fruits of your labor. You did the work and reaped the rewards. I'm glad you showed yourself and us what willpower can do. You executed the old saying, "If you can't make the mountain come to you then go to the mountain. I loved how in the movie you were sunbathing while Nando was plotting to walk out of there. Even in the midst of death you were enjoying the basic sunshine. I'm really glad you made it. Say a prayer for me if you please. I am having a hard time organizing myself and picking and passing the qualifications for the right job. Thank you for writing me. It comes at a time when I feel alone and have to regroup and need some inspiration.
The inaccuracy here is that Nando was actually the tallest, strongest and most muscular of the passengers by *a lot*
It really makes this scene different if you picture it like that.
When they finally reached the green land, I was finally able to breathe watching this movie. Wow! One of those movies that truly “has you” when watching it.
I felt exactly the same way when I first saw this movie almost 25 years ago. That's why I have been coming back to the movie again and again and why it became my favourite movie.
I saw it at the theater 25 years ago as well. As close to a religious experience as I'd ever had, at least on an emotional level. Bought it when it came out on VHS, then read Nando's book when it came out years later....even more amazing than the movie in describing the awesome effort and courage it took to climb up, and then down the other steep side of those first peaks.....yes....never give up, anything is possible.
I need to seriously read that book, going to by the end of this year definitely!
Really there's so much they've said about this and take some things hugely seriously with what's said like the person who wrote the script there's a saying he had in that (though was of course an actor speaking the lines) which I take incredibly seriously. Also with this clip I myself (though not being confronted with a situation even remotely like this obviously so I am not even going to bother patronising them about it) but I'd have absolutely no problem if I should die from what ever accident or whatever and it meant others needing to eat the dead I'd be fine with them eating me. The way I see it exactly like is there's no difference to me with organ donation, if I was the reason why some people survived because it meant eating me then I am perfectly fine with it.
Awesome movie the power of the human spirit!
@@dougafir51 can you please provide the details of the book. I want to make sure I purchase the one you are referencing here in case he has written many. What was it called? Thanks in advance 👍
I ironically saw this on Netflix on the hottest day ever in the UK (19th July 2022).
The human body/spirit can do amazing things.
I think it's sad that they basically skipped the 10 days trip of Nando and Roberto which is actually the most fascinating part of the whole story.
I think a new movie about this story is coming up
Yes I have never understood that
I think in the first movie about this story 1976 this is not skipped
Cannibalism way more fascinating
@@alberttwangle893 shut up dumbass
I have watched this 90x at at least. This scene still tears me up. When you think your week or month is going bad, just watch this movie. IMHO this is the best movie/documentary ever made. Everyone should watch this at least once in their life..
I think the national geographic is better but of course it's a documentary
The first movie I ever cried watching.. I still cry every time i see the helicopters..
I agreed With you. Greetings from Casanare, Colombia.
I'm curious, have you watched Society of the Snow yet? what did you think about it?
@@emiliomartinez2970it's amazing
I'm fascinated over this history.
If this movie hadn't been based on a true story people would make fun of it. Once again, reality beats imagination
The song “Ave’ Maria” one of the prettiest songs ever written. I cry when I heard Aaron Neville perform it at the end.
Indeed my friend, came here after lisening to Ave Maria in another video:). This scene here (its magnificent, it's God) and Ave Maria in the end made this one movie I have not forgotten.
Amen
@@burjsrodriguez199 And Merry Christmas!
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God be with you.
Me too my friends. It was a poignant scene. This movie changed my life.
Great film - even greater book by Piers Paul Read....
It hits harder realising this was based of a true story
Nando is the voice of hope throughout.
Wise, poetic, inspire his friend, by noticing which mountains have no snow and knowledge where the sun rises and sets and knowledge of geography where there is a valley, deeper understanding why he lived so long, appreciation of God and nature and beauty. Not only Alive because he survived but Alive to appreciate.
Since I read the book when I was 13,I'm 51 now, I have been in Nando conference, met Dr Cannesa because is my collegue, I have seen the movie a hundred of time, and have been a great inspiration this story to me and my family lives
I never saw this movie until recently but it's one of the most inspirational things I ever saw.
The sheer impossibility of what they went through was astounding.
I've been up in this kind of environment in CO....though when I got injured and stuck at 12000ft, I knew I at least still had a phone.
This movie made me cry so many times from just sheer pure emotion.
This great movie needs a blu-ray and UHD release.
I always shed a tear or two here. okay three. "... if we die, we die walking..."
I love this scene, and the lyrics, "and he will carry us on every stone.."
Wow ! It's true !
This is true. When Nando reached the summit he looked over hoping to see green fields maybe a town. Instead he saw mountains all around him, he reasoned he would most likely die but he resolved himself to keep on going. If he was going to die he was going to die walking.
just my take on why the final escape / 10 day trip was glossed over.... it was one of those sacred moments, that was only between Nando and Canessa and God, leading them out. The movie made it a precious moment. It can't be seen, it can only be felt.
Yes. To me that is THE story. Everything else is just standard plane crash fare. The journey out, is truly heroic.
the green valleys of chile.
i remember last time i climbed a mountain like this in order to get my pizza, i can relate
If we die, we die walking.
It wasn't anywhere near as easy as this movie makes it look. They walked with snow shoes made of plane seats and wires and wore plexiglass sunglasses. With the low oxygen and at times the snow was waist high it was a struggle for each step. The movie omits running into a man on a horse who brought back horsemen the next day to bring them to a village.
There's no way the movie could've included all those tiny details. The movie was about the guys' struggle TOGETHER. When Nando coaxes Roberto to come along with him, THAT is the emotional climax of the story. John Patrick Shanley is a great writer.
The movie DEFINITELY could have made the snow waist high instead of them just treading across flat ground dusted with snow.@@hightreason7934
There is only an emotional climax because FIRST there were PHYSICAL CLIMAXES: the deaths of the people after the avalanche MADE Nando DETERMINED to leave at all costs because in the movie or the documentary he says these mountains are like gods that want to kill them until no one is left. Nando is convinced the only way out is to walk out. The deaths are BOTH the physical climax AND the EMOTIONAL CLIMAX. In the movie Nando says, "Maybe we'll die, but we're going to die walking." Nando is quite literally and figuratively set in his way. He has made his mind up. He is committed to don't stop til you drop. After walking and seeing for himself where he is and using the sunset and his own eyes and his own mind to see the mountains with melted snow and reason that is the direction to go in, he has charted his course.
The snow was waist high was not a small detail. It was a huge detail that made the escape that much more discouraging.@@hightreason7934
I agree with you. I'm 39. I read Piers Paul Read's book "Alive" 3 decades ago, right around the time this film came out, when I was 9 years old. It will always be the definitive drama of this subject.@@priscillasalzberg5349
I ve no words for this movie , 👍👍👍
Makes me want to see the movie again, greetings from Uruguay :)
'You see where the sun's going to set, that way's west and to the west are the green valleys of Chile'.
Surely the most inspirational lines ever spoken in a desperate bid to survive.
one of the few real life happy endings...it looked great...inspirational, all right.
Yeah tell that to the families of the 29 people who ended up being airline food.
@@joshchelf7729those people can rest easy knowing their loved ones live on in the lives of the survivors children and grandchildren, and that they did not die in vain. And fwiw there have been interviews done to several family members of those who were eaten and they wished nothing but the best to the survivors. Your pathetic trolling attempts failed.
stunning wilderness, I´m jealous
And now "La sociedad de la nieve".
This was a wonderful movie but very sad. Great job everyone.
34°45'9"S 70°16'46"W Coordinates valley of tears. West Highland where up Nando, Tintin and Canessa. South Mountain where the plane hit. View east towards the Sosneado and place of the plane's tail. Mount Seler and overlooking both mountains without snow saw Nando, and the route down the mountain where Nando and Canessa.
Roberto chavon John in your pfp!! Yes
This is real story
My mom showed me this movie when i was 8, im glad i watched it
Ese si fue un heroe....ignoro posible vibras begativas , no perdio su Fe ni su esperanza.GUAI, Yo si lloro esto todavia.2019.
Attitude is everything!
This scene was a guiding light in dark times.
Questa scena mi ha salvato la vita...Dio sa🙏
Ethen Hawke and Kevin Bacon in an inspirational scene.
how did ethan hawke's character maintain a well trimmed gotee in the andes?
this is the link i get for my english homework thanks its inspirational
yes one of my favourites
When they saw HOPE, my favorite part! God bless them all!
Great movie!!! Moving and totally for tearful jerks :)
Got to admire the ability of Ethan Hawke to keep his moustache intact after 72 days lost in the middle of nowhere.
The actor refused to grow a beard, so its not productions fault
@@guessowiiHollywood. They weren’t being accurate in this movie anyway so what was one more thing.
I had this movie on tape growing up. Watched it so many times. Maybe this is why I have an unrelenting will..
Great movie!!! Moving and totally a tear jerker :)
You f*** up this is not my this is a real story 1977 year
R4
Excellent
Wow the fast running in the end....... did they really think the 2 guys would have the energy to do that? They fast forward that whole part of their yourney. Hollywood at it's finest.
The new movie is so much better and I actually had tears in my eyes at the end.
not too mention their clothes looked brand new and unscathed 😂
Real story real survivor ❤️
Based on a true story, but not historically accurate, and not even true to the book of the same name. The survivors call it 'the Disney version'.
This is always great.
I saw the movie recently because of the Supertouch (Klute) EP The Dreams, the song called Alive have the sample of this fragment specifically. The movie is Awesome
That’s funny that they’re still so clean shaven and kinda polished looking after what, 60ish days on the mountain here.
And it’s a shame that this version skipped the 10 day trek of Nando and Roberto in my opinion.
interesting though, Nando himself said he had given up when he reached the peak and saw only mountains, Roberto was the one who told him to keep going and they agreed to die crossing the mountains
+linegenrou Wrong, its the other way around. Even in the interviews they said that,
Drew Glace
watch the documentary: surviving the andes plane crash and you'll see Nando himself talking about it.
Yes he said he had given up, but also told roberto that they needed to keep going with his though process being he didnt want to come back to the plane where they would have had to eat his mother and sister. They both agreed to go.
+Drew Glace Wrong. Nando felt desperate for a moment after reach the summit and only see more mountains around. Then he assumed (started to fully accept) the "fact" (conclusion) that he was going to die there. However, he decided to keep going/walking ( !!! ) even if that was (apparently) pointless, so Nando does Not give up, he used his "acceptance" to decide keep going, step by step... obviously a part of him "knew" that (regardless the final outcome) keep going wasn't totally "pointless". Even with his fear and against all "logical" ods, there is always Hope....The possibility of a positive outcome, especially when one listen and use his Inner/whole Self (intuition, subconscious mind, etc). All these men, but especially Nando in that extremely amazing walking... is/are the living proof of power of the human mind, taking full responsability for our choices and listen our Inner-whole-Self.
Just to clarify, my previous comment was for +gotothelight . Regardless that, these individuals, especially Nando, were amazing in showing us how a "simply" human being can achieve and/or manifest when choose Life in the more depht way of the word. Respect!
Ethan Hike
Nando Paredo is one of those amazing people who rose to the occasion of a tested beyond imagination. It's too bad the film makers seemed to exhaust the budget and had to hurriedly wrap the story up, because they made it seem like a quick walk out after this scene. It took them 11 DAYS to walk out. A couple of fun facts about their ordeal...That road Canessa said he though he saw? It was actually a road. And, they decided to go up and over instead of down because they thought down would take them deeper into the mountains. Well, if they went down, they would have run smack dab into a hotel about 10 miles away. In his biography, Nando says the actual quote was, "I would rather face death walking towards it, than wait for it come to me while I did nothing." One final fact...years later, an expedition of professional mountaineers set out to recreate the walkout with professional gear and clothing. They ended the attempt within a few days because they deemed it too dangerous. Oh...and when Nando gave directions to the helicopter pilot flying back to the crash site, the pilot at first refused to fly where Nando said was the path they took, because he was certain Nando was mistaken. He felt that no one could have taken that path. Nando had to beg the pilot to believe him.
Thanks for that info, everything to do with the story is important and fascinating. However I believe the hotel you mentioned, although it was in fact there, was essentially abandoned, not in service. So if they found it, they would have better shelter, however still no food, no communication, and no way home...
@@Mrs.Currie You had me wondering, so I rewatched the documentary that mentioned it. The hotel was actually 18 miles away, but it was still in operation when the plane crashed. It is now an abandoned ruin. In the documentary, they do mention there was a large river between them and the hotel and that they probably wouldn't have been able to cross it to reach the hotel, though.
Yes, the theory that if they'd gone east they would've been rescued earlier has already been debunked by experts and people who know the place.
First they would've come across the River Atuel, impossible to cross at that time of year due to the thaw - that year's snowfalls were the worst in the Andes in recent decades. The hotel was abandoned since 1953, and then they would've had to walk over 65 kilometres (40 miles) of rough terrain to get to the nearest road, which was a place almost as desolate as the crash site (very few people passed by all year round).
Daniel Fernández Strauch (survivor and one of the leaders in the mountains) confirms this in an interview made last year, and there's a video on YT showing the route with satellite images. Nowadays, the hotel is a stopover point for people visiting the crash site.
These movie is good in present a general view of this story, but it is EXTREMELY soft in showing the extremely desperate physical state (I.e.: mouth wounds due take ice, general weakness, extreme skinny state of each one of them, and worse for whom were wound in the crash, etc) and mental the had to suffered on that long 2 and more months there. These man, including whose past away there, are truly amazing individuals.
Canessa and Nando, especially, are heros in my book. The "simply" fact of keep going one more day in those circumstances, shows a courage that deserves to be learned and respect (especially given the fact that "attracted" a huge positive/"miraculous" outcome). We all have those capabilities inside...!
The survivors say 'Alive' is a very superficial depiction of their ordeal.
Great!
Great movie
Never more than now... "do you know what it is to be alive at a moment like this... it's impossible..." April 8, 2020
"When you are going through Hell, keep going". Churchill.
thank u
emotional scene
Lo único para reclamarle a esta película, es q no incluyeron al arriero chileno don Sergio Catalán, héroe insoslayable de está gran historia.
Q.E.P.D. don Sergio.
Si no hubieran visto a Catalan, no hubieran vivido. Iban totalmente desauceados y a Catalan le tomo' varias horas a caballo para llegar al poblado. Ellos no hubieran podido cruzar el rio y no tenian ni idea donde estaba el poblado. Catalan fue un angel que Dios les envio'.
This is how I feel about the CEO of Target Brain Cornell. 71% approval rating.
This is a remarkable story. But in this scene, shouldn’t they be referring to the 60 days (not 70 days) they had survived? Eventually it was a bit over 70 days. But at the point, they hadn’t done the 10 day hike through the mountains
il film più bello per me.
It gives me hope that the Malaysian airplane people might be alive. When human survival instinct set in, it's something that neither of us will ever experience, unless ur ever starving to death or close to death. I feel that although many think that it's passengers are dead, we have to have hope, and think that it is possible for someone to be alive.
well said, thank you.. as if you've expressed by thoughts
i watched the documentary by H channel, its so inspiration for my self, and all Malaysian
-pray for MS370 -
The Malaysian plane was taken to a hanger and the people/crew were killed. There was man on board that owned a patent (I forget for what) but the Rothchilds family ended up owning it afterwards
With today's technology it's a little complete joke they can't find an entire plane. They can pinpoint cellphones via GPS satellites.
Ha. Any day now you think?
Uruguayans always doing the impossible .
Dashie #1 wow. you are the most coldhearted person Ivr ever seen
Gracias Dios mío!
Fifth time watching this ;)
Only mystical/profound souls appreciate films like this, Shawshank, the way back, the Misison etc..
So, the survivors are not mystical/profound souls because they don't like 'Alive'.
Very nice movie
Te das cuenta que el mundo es bizarro, cuando recordas que Ethan Hawke hizo de Fernando Parrado.
rantifusaxp que significa "bizarro" ?
Saludos
¿Y? Ethan Hawke hizo un excelente trabajo.
Pass me another hunk of the co pilot
Nando needed someone to inspire to make himself move forward. Roberto needs to see what Nando sees. Nando made a believer out of Roberto.
I love this movie but so sad and good at the same time. Watch the documentary. It's on YT.
Watching Ethan go from this beast mode role to that defeated wimp he played in his latest movie is disheartening 🙄
A story of faith.. this scene when I look back was impactful when I was being saved by God.. put your trust in Jesus and he will change your hearts desires and grant you eternal life.. glory B to God..
Alive Uruguay
The worst part of this is you can't even sue the pilot. He's dead. You can't even blame this one on Boeing.
Society of the Snow made this movie look like a red headed step child.
Stilll a good movie