![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps it also seems strange to British readers, following the demise of our mining industry, that men still labour in perilous underground corridors. The story of “Los 33” speaks to universal anxieties about darkness, isolation, death. What nobody anticipated was that they would remain underground for 69 days and that their rescue would captivate the world. All considered copper mining a dangerous occupation which would eventually earn them money to improve their families’ lots. Some of the miners were apprentices, others veterans, and a few had even survived previous accidents. ![]() He didn’t arrive late, or dress inappropriately, but the young Bolivian had been working underground at San José mine, in northern Chile, for a few hours when an explosion left him, and 32 colleagues, trapped 700 metres below the surface of the Atacama desert. On 5 august 2010, Carlos Mamani had the first day from hell. ![]()
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