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José Pedro Algorta

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José Pedro Algorta

Born August 31, 1951 · Montevideo, Uruguay (age 75)

José Pedro Algorta Durán, known as Pedro Algorta, is a Uruguayan economist and survivor of the 1972 Andes flight disaster. He was one of the 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was a 21-year-old economics student at the time of the crash. After the disaster, he continued his studies in Buenos Aires and later earned an MBA from Stanford University. He wrote Las montañas siguen allí, …

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Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the MountainsStranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains · 2007
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
★ 8.02007
MovieDocumentaryHistory
The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.

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