Never-Before-Seen Cellphone Footage Shows the Terror Underground During the Chilean Mining Disaster

Interview: Nat Geo "Chilean Mine Rescue" Directors on the Footage No One Expected to Find

When Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time directors James Parris and Chloe Campbell first approached the story, they already had the outline of the 2010 Copiapó mining disaster. What they didn't expect was how much the headline had flattened. “These iconic stories, they take on an almost two-dimensional, cartoonish resonance...

39 days in the desert: Inside the high-stakes gamble that saved Chile’s trapped miners - American Press

On Aug. 5, 2010, a catastrophic collapse at the San José copper-gold mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert sealed 33 miners nearly half a mile underground. For 17 agonizing days, the […]

Never-Before-Seen Cellphone Footage Shows the Terror Underground During the Chilean Mining Disaster

In 2010, the world watched as 33 miners were trapped half a mile beneath the surface of the Earth in Chile's Atacama Desert for 69 days. These miners faced complete darkness, immense stress, and a never-ending expectation of death. Their experiences and how the rest of the world experienced the event are on full display in a new three-part National Geographic series, Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time.

Engineer behind Chilean mine rescue recalls race to save 33 trapped men: ‘I cried like a baby’

Ahead of the National Geographic documentary, a young engineer who helped devise the drilling plan that rescued 33 Chilean miners reflects on the extraordinary engineering effort, planning, teamwork and faith that defined the historic 2010 rescue.

Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time on Disney+ — told by the 33 who lived it

For sixty-nine days, thirty-three Chilean miners survived half a mile underground while the world watched the drills. National Geographic's three-part documentary retells the San José rescue with the miners' own footage — and follows the story past the moment the winch stopped turning.