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Parrado and Canessa walked through the mountains for five more days. The indistinct but promising shape they had seen in the distance got closer. And, to their unspeakable relief, became a narrow valley. A river, the Rio Azufre, trickled at the base of its cradling slopes. They followed the river down, their hopes swelling with its waters. They dropped out of the snowline. They saw sparse signs of human presence: the blackened stones of an old campfire, the flattened earth of a path. Finally, nine days after setting out, they passed cows.