33 Men (25 page)

Mining Minister Golborne, President Piñera and André Sougarret, the lead engineer, confer on rescue plans.

Hugo Infante / Government
of Chile / Rex USA

Drill bits for Plan B, worn out by hundreds of feet of rock twice as hard as granite.

Jonathan Franklin / Addict Village

Family members at Camp Hope light candles in homage to the trapped men.

ARIEL MARINKOVIC / AFP / Getty Images

A poster of the thirty-three miners with the slogan
“We Are Waiting for Them.”

Associated Press / Jim Craven

Author Jonathan Franklin reporting at Plan B; Jeff Hart in the background.

Jonathan Franklin / Addict Village

Verónica Quispe holds a
photograph of her trapped husband, Bolivian Carlos Mamani, the only non-Chilean in the mine.

© Claudio Reyes / epa / Corbis

In a few famous words—“We are fine in the shelter, the 33”—the Chilean miners conveyed a miracle.

Associated Press / Hector Retamal

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera holds aloft the famous note declaring all thirty-three miners are alive in the shelter.

Associated Press / Hector Retamal

Jeff Hart (left), considered the world's best driller, was flown in from Afghanistan to save the miners.
© Ronald Patrick

Mining Minister Laurence Golborne was ever present at the rescue, earning the title “Laurence of Atacama.”

© Fernando Rodriguez

Family members of Mario Gómez and Darío Segovia celebrate the final phase of the rescue
operation.

Associated Press / Mario Barrett

Chilean inventor Pedro Gallo was instrumental in
designing the telephone hookup with the trapped miners.

© Fernando Rodriguez