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A survivor is speaking out after five hikers died in a blizzard in Patagonia, Chile

“I think we all thought we were not getting out of this," said the hiker, who fell while trying to make his way down to base camp from the icy mountain

One of the climbers who died was his good friend, Victoria Bond

A hiker is sharing the horror he experienced during a blizzard in the Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile, which killed five people , including one of his good friends.

“I think we all thought we were not getting out of this. It felt like we were in a nightmare,” Christian Aldridge, a 41-year-old British TV director and producer, told The Times from his hospital bed in Chile following the devastating storm.

Earlier this month, the National Forestry Corpora

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