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Author Jonathan Franklin talks to President Sebastián Piñera just hours before the rescue begins.

Marcelo Iturbe

Rescue workers gaze down in curiosity as the rescue capsule rises from the mine to deliver another miner to freedom.

REUTERS / Chilean Government
Video / Pool / Landov

Huge convoys of equipment rolled into Camp Hope nearly every day to help with the rescue.

Ariel Caliban Marinkovic

Rescue workers gathered at the Phoenix capsule as each miner was hauled to the surface in a journey that ended the sixty-nine-day drama.

© Ronald Patrick

Tears of joy filled the air when the rescue capsule began saving the lives of the thirty-three men.

A
riel Caliban Marinkovic

Mario Sepúlveda danced his way out of the capsule and into the hearts of the world. He was dubbed “Super Mario.”

REUTERS / Chilean
Government / Landov

José Henríquez, who preached inside the mine, greets the world just minutes after being rescued from the San José mine.

Associated Press / Roberto Candia

Miner Franklin Lobos, a former soccer star, holds his daughter Carolina Lobos seconds after being rescued.

Gabriel Ortega / Government
of Chile / Rex USA

After sixty-nine days of waiting, family members erupt in celebration when the last miner, Luis Urzúa, is rescued.

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pa/ian salsas/Landov

Luis Urzúa, the last miner rescued, celebrates as President Piñera stands by his side. Urzúa was shift foreman on the day of the collapse.

HUGO INFANTE / AFP / Getty Images / Newscom

Miners laugh and joke with President Sebastián Piñera in the hospital.

Gobierno de Chile / Rex USA