These kids are amazing. They were in a plane crash, their parents died, they survived a month, including keeping the one year alive.
Posted on 06/09/2023 6:54:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Four children have been found alive more than a month after their plane crashed in Colombia's Amazon jungle, the country's president has said.
The siblings, aged 13, nine, four and a one-year-old baby, were on board the plane with their mother, a pilot and a co-pilot when it crashed on 1 May.
Their mother and the other adults onboard the plane died.
President Gustavo Petro said finding the children after weeks of searching was "a joy for the whole country".
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These kids are amazing. They were in a plane crash, their parents died, they survived a month, including keeping the one year alive.
Truly amazing!
Amazing indeed. The eldest must have shown extraordinary leadership skills as they were doubtless faced with incredible dangers every day, several times a day. To care for a 9,4,and 1 YO under those conditions is beyond remarkable.
It boggles the mind.
“” The eldest must have shown extraordinary leadership skills as they were doubtless faced with incredible dangers every day, several times a day. To care for a 9,4,and 1 YO under those conditions is beyond remarkable.””
Absolutely, and anyone who has spent even a week camping knows that 40 days in the wild really changes a person, I would like to learn more about that 13-year-old who was so self-composed and steady and able to function effectively for such a long period.
This is a book I’m looking forward to.
Wow. Just wow.
Or not.
Indeed
“ Indigenous people joined the search operation and helicopters broadcasted a message from the children’s grandmother, recorded in the Huitoto language, urging them to stop moving to make them easier to locate.”
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Stop moving? Hell, the kids had survived by being Hunter-gatherers… or at least gatherers—- to survive. Keeping on the move searching for new food sources is somewhat needed for “gathering”.
Props to the kids and props to the search teams who kept plugging away.
This reminds me of that Uruguayan rugby team who crashed in the Andes mountains in 1972, only without the cannibalism.
No comparison…this was all children .
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It’s kind of hard to eat your siblings. Well, not for some people.
I thought they were talking about an Amazon warehouse.
Les Stroud (Survivor Man) didn’t last his entire 7 days in the Amazon jungle iirc. On the sixth night he ran in the dark back to the remote village that had a wall around it after hearing a jaguar stalking him.
Amazing kids!
What on earth did they find for a one year old to eat?
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“Witoto culture is typical of the tropical forest: they are good farmers and food gatherers as well as proficient hunters and fishermen. The typical settlement consists of a single large round or rectangular hut sheltering many families. They use large, hollow signal drums. Traditionally, women go naked, while men wear only a breechclout; both sexes paint colourful designs on their bodies (sometimes from shoulders to ankles).
Warfare was common among the Witoto, who kept young prisoners but ate older captives. Cannibalism was limited to male participation and was part of a magico-religious celebration. Shamans conjured spirits and healed diseases. Child betrothal and bride service were present. The Witoto household, consisting of the head, his sons, their wives, and unmarried children, was the basic political unit.”
I read somewhere that they are indigenous kids, which may be why they knew what to do and eat, and what not to eat, in the jungle. God bless them. Heroes! I hope they are interviewed and we learn more about their ordeal and survival methods after they get settled back home.
There was an Irish Catholic family of 4 or 5 kids that I knew back in the 70s whose parents died when the oldest was 18. She went to court and had herself declared their guardian, and did an AMAZING job looking out for her younger siblings. When there were still a couple of them with her at home, she got married. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
Think of the lifetime bonding experience and maturing the 13-year-old and 9-year-old have shared.
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