Nando parrado biography of alberta
Nando parrado biography of alberta
Nando parrado biography of alberta province!
Nando Parrado
Survivor of the 1972 Andes flight disaster
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Parrado and the second or maternal family name is Dolgay.
Fernando "Nando" Seler Parrado Dolgay (born 9 December 1949) is a Uruguayan businessman, producer, motivational speaker, author, television presenter, former rugby player and a racing driver.
He is one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 which crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa, climbed through the Andes mountains over a 10-day period to find help.[1]
Background
Early life
Parrado was born in Montevideo on December 9, 1949, the second of three children of Seler Parrado and Xenia "Eugenia" Dolgay, a Ukrainian immigrant who arrived in Uruguay at the age of 16.[2] Raised in the Carrasco neighborhood, he attended Stella Maris