Acting
Daniel Fernández Strauch
Born — Died
1946-02-12 — 2025-05-08
Place of birth
Montevideo, Uruguay
Known for
Acting
Credits
2 titles
Daniel Fernández Strauch was a Uruguayan agronomist and survivor of the 1972 Andes flight disaster. He was one of the 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. He later worked in agriculture and wrote Regreso a la montaña, reflecting on his experience and its aftermath.
Known for
8.0On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Society of the Snow
2023
8.0The 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.
Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
2007