Nando Parrado - The ultimate survivor — Transcript

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1. 0:00They call him the ultimate survivor. On
2. 0:03Friday the 13th October 1972, an ill-
3. 0:06fated charter flight plane carrying an
4. 0:08Uruguayan rugby team, their friends and
5. 0:11family members crashed in the Andes. Not
6. 0:14immediately rescued, the survivors had
7. 0:16to turn to cannibalism to survive. After
8. 0:1972 horrific days, they were eventually
9. 0:21saved. Rugby team member and crash
10. 0:24survivor Nando Parado's amazing survival
11. 0:27story is one of friendship, tragedy, and
12. 0:30superhuman perseverance. With a
13. 0:32fractured skull and having to resort to
14. 0:34eat the flesh of his teammates and
15. 0:36friends, Parado, who lost his mother and
16. 0:38sister in the crash, somehow emerged
17. 0:40from a coma to beat the odds by walking
18. 0:42across one of the highest mountains in
19. 0:44the Andes with fellow survivor Roberto
20. 0:46Canessa to salvation after 11 days of
21. 0:50snowy mountain trek. For the past 10
22. 0:52years, Parado has been giving
23. 0:54inspirational talks based on his
24. 0:56experiences high up in the Andes.
25. 0:58Recently, Parado traveled to Malaysia to
26. 1:00speak about his ordeal at the recent
27. 1:02inaugural Youth Engagement Summit held
28. 1:04at Putraaya International Convention
29. 1:07Center alongside luminaries like Sir Bob
30. 1:09Gildoff, Twitter co-founder Bis Stone,
31. 1:13world chess champion Gary Kasparov, and
32. 1:15Air Asia Pioneer Tony Fernandez.
33. 1:18Speaking to journalists after his
34. 1:20presentation at a press conference,
35. 1:22Parado revealed that he has learned how
36. 1:23to enjoy every minute of the life he
37. 1:26fought so hard to preserve up in the
38. 1:28Andes. Uh, a lot of Anglo-Saxons usually
39. 1:31they have a post-traumatic stress
40. 1:33because they survived something with our
41. 1:36friends. We b we open champagne.
42. 1:40Uh, we are alive. We fought for our
43. 1:42lives. We we didn't do anything that we
44. 1:45shouldn't have done except except that
45. 1:48we fought so hard and we are so happy to
46. 1:50be alive that I enjoy every single
47. 1:52second of my life. I shouldn't be here.
48. 1:53I should be dead and buried 37 years
49. 1:56ago. So I'm only 37 now. And uh I I
50. 2:02enjoyed everything, you know. I enjoyed
51. 2:04my work. I enjoyed my family. I enjoyed
52. 2:06my dogs. I enjoy being here speaking
53. 2:09with you. So uh I think that the purpose
54. 2:12in life is uh living the life you know
55. 2:16living your life not living the life of
56. 2:18others. We gain the experience at 17 181
57. 2:2219 that people gain when they are 80 85
58. 2:24at the end of their lives. How many
59. 2:26philosophers, how many writers like
60. 2:27Bourhees from Argentina or French
61. 2:30writers, philosophers have written that
62. 2:32had they been able to be born again,
63. 2:34they would live their lives differently,
64. 2:37you know, and that's what we want to
65. 2:39share sometimes. Don't only leave your
66. 2:43life for work. That's part of life, but
67. 2:47leave a small percentage for the other
68. 2:49things also. with regards to whether he
69. 2:52had to endure any nightmares after being
70. 2:54rescued. Parado had this to say. Yeah,
71. 2:57that's a good question. It's asked uh
72. 3:01many times especially in the US because
73. 3:04they
74. 3:05and it changes according to continents,
75. 3:09even to the way people think, even to
76. 3:12different uh countries, to different
77. 3:15civilizations, to different ethnics, it
78. 3:18changes. Americans
79. 3:20if something goes wrong they need
80. 3:22counseling immediately. Whatever goes
81. 3:24wrong they need counseling. Yeah. I mean
82. 3:28it happens. It's it's a society that
83. 3:30they go to counseling. I had nightmares
84. 3:33over there. I tried to wake up and say
85. 3:36okay I'm not on this fusilage. I'm going
86. 3:38to wake up and I'm going to look at my
87. 3:40racing car posters. It's my room. This
88. 3:42is my bed. I'm going to open my eyes and
89. 3:45I'm going to see that. And I opened my
90. 3:46eyes and I saw destroyed airplane. As
91. 3:49soon as I got back, the first night that
92. 3:52I slept on the hospital, probably they
93. 3:55gave me some pills to uh make me, you
94. 3:58know, sedate myself a little bit. I had
95. 4:01so much adrenaline and still I've slept
96. 4:04every single night without one nightmare
97. 4:07in this 37 years. And in his guise as
98. 4:10public speaker, Parado said that he was
99. 4:12often asked one question more than
100. 4:14others. A lot of questions are asked
101. 4:16different so many questions are asked
102. 4:18but a common one is do you still see the
103. 4:22other guys and uh yes we were friends 10
104. 4:26years before the plane crashed we live
105. 4:28through that together
106. 4:30of the 16 15 we live on the same city
107. 4:33nine on the same neighborhood because
108. 4:34your way is very small so I see four or
109. 4:37five of them every week because they are
110. 4:39my friends from my life and we live
111. 4:42through something horrible together but
112. 4:44we go out to dinner, football matches,
113. 4:46you know, we go out with our wives and
114. 4:48we they come home for barbecues, but mix
115. 4:51with other friends. So the we never
116. 4:54sometimes we speak about the answers you
117. 4:56know there's a question arises but 95%
118. 5:00of the time we speak about other
119. 5:01subjects because it's uh it's way back
120. 5:04it's happened but uh it's not the main
121. 5:09object of our lives you know our lives
122. 5:11have been blessed with so many things
123. 5:13after that in his 2006 book miracle in
124. 5:17the Andes parad said that his father had
125. 5:19given him some good advice that went
126. 5:21along the lines of don't look back, you
127. 5:23get a pain in the neck. According to
128. 5:26Parado, those wise words have served him
129. 5:28well in dealing with the past. All the
130. 5:31consequences of the decisions would be
131. 5:33life or death. All the consequences of
132. 5:35my decisions in business, would I fail
133. 5:38or not? And
134. 5:40also in his book, Parado mentioned that
135. 5:42he never wanted to be a hero. In an
136. 5:44exclusive one-on-one interview after the
137. 5:46press conference, he was philosophical
138. 5:48about how he managed to do the things he
139. 5:50did in order to survive such a terrible
140. 5:52ordeal. I've always analyzed that and I
141. 5:56never found found an answer. I think
142. 5:57it's survival instinct. How could I
143. 5:59create those thoughts? I didn't
144. 6:01recognize myself, you know, but they it
145. 6:04just happened. People are different.
146. 6:07Some are tennis players. Some are
147. 6:09lawyers. Some uh play guitar. Some play
148. 6:13guitar better than other ones. Some play
149. 6:15soccer better than other ones. Some are
150. 6:17better managers than other ones. Some
151. 6:19draw better than other ones. There are
152. 6:21some journalists that are better than
153. 6:23other journalists, you know. And there
154. 6:25are survivors that are better better
155. 6:27than other survivors. Why? I don't know.
156. 6:29Maybe it's will personality, character,
157. 6:33uh
158. 6:35the brain influenced by different
159. 6:40things.
160. 6:41Probably the will to see my father
161. 6:45made that difference. I don't know.
162. 6:46That's a personal opinion. Zach Husoft,
163. 6:50the Star Malaysia.
164. 6:53[Music]