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Evans Ricardo was interviewed as himself, helping out by being in charge of Mountain Safety. Evans for some "summit" re-enactments of when Nando and Roberto reached the highest point in their escape expedition. Ricardo selected three locations: Flagstaff mountain at about 7000' in Boulder for some rock climbing shots where he was a stunt climber for "Nando", Loveland Pass for steep snow climbing shots at 13,000' where he did stunt work for "Canessa" while bringing a fellow climber (Chad Muehling) to double for Nando, and finally Mt. Finally, in June one more mountain shoot took place in Colorado. Brad and Ricardo made a great team and worked with the actors to make the re-enactaments very realistic and true to the story. Ricardo was invited to participate as expert consultant. In April, 2010 shooting took place in Angelfire, New Mexico with a perfect-to-scale mock fuselage. In January 2010, Andy and his son Danny Streitfeld joined the Andes Survivors 2010 expedition to film Eduardo and Ricardo as well as many location shots. In fact, Ricardo was surprised to see just how much! Andy and Brad quickly realized that Ricardo's telling of the story was passionate, sincere and engaging so they had him talk about the whole story (not just the expedition) and later used a lot of this on the documentary. This is the footage you see of Ricardo in the documentary.
Ricardo was interviewed and filmed in Austin, Texas on December 23, 2009. Ricardo met Andy and Brad briefly at Dallas airport on his way to a Mexico expedition and the three hit it off instantly.
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Nando suggested they called Ricardo, as he could provide a lot of knowledge of the story, and photos and info from the expedition that repeated Nando and Roberto's crossing of the Andes. Nando Parrado was approached by Andy and Brad and loved the idea. Their original idea was to tell Nando's perspective of the event but near the end and with a change of title by History Channel, the documentary encompassed more than just Nando's story. This was a true labor of love by director Brad and by executive producer Andy Streitfeld, both big fans of the story. History Channel's: I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash The latest documentary is the superb production of AMS Pictures and director Brad Osborne: Behind the survivors you can see a huge crevasse if you pay attention. Ricardo would jokingly point out "I do not want to be remembered in history as the person responsible for the death of one of the famous survivors, not after what they survived!!" The challenge was met by fixing two lines: one for the film crew and one for the survivors, and having everyone wearing climbing harnesses. The glacier was heavily crevassed and the responsibility of taking these famous survivors into this dangerous terrain was considerable. Arijon asked Ricardo if it would be possible to bring the crew and the 4 survivors onto the glacier to film at the actual spot. Arijon saw Ricardo's photos at the actual site from his December 2005 NG expedition and found out that Ricardo had just brought Eduardo to the site (Eduardo was the first survivor to actually go beyond the memorial cross and to the spot on the glacier where the plane was and where they lived 72 days). Ricardo was hired to be in charge of mountain safety. Arijon, a film crew, and four of the survivors (Canessa, Fito Strauch, Zerbino and Sabella) went to the Andes to do some filming at the actual site. Eduardo Strauch was interviewed in Montevideo in 2005. This documentary featured, for the first time, interviews with all 16 of the Andes Survivors. The first one was called Stranded: I come from a plane that crashed on the mountain (released 2009). For TN's show Mario Markic and his crew joined the 2011 Andes Survivors Expedition (see photos from this expedition) and filmed Eduardo and Ricardo at the site.