The event was organized by the Viven Foundation and Universidad ORT Uruguay.
Jaime Damiani, Academic Secretary of the School of Management and Social Sciences, introduced the lecture.
On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying 45 Uruguayan passengers crashed at an altitude of 4,000 meters in the Andes Mountains.
Most of the passengers were between 19 and 24 years old; they had never traveled far from their families and had never seen snow. Seventy-two days later, the whole world received the news that 16 people had survived.
Javier Methol, the oldest member of the group of survivors, recounted his experience in a conversational tone.
He is a co-founder and served as the first president of the Viven Foundation, an organization has by the 16 survivors and the families of those who died in the tragedy. The foundation shares the story of the Andes and promotes the values of the Viven Legacy.