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Person1902 – 1940
Henri Guillaumet
French airmail pilot and friend of Saint-Exupéry who crash-landed in the Andes in 1930 and survived by walking for five days
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The airmail pilot Guillaumet was forced down by a snowstorm in the winter Andes and survived by walking for five days over snow-covered mountains.
People who appear alongside
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900 – 1944French aviator and writer who flew the mail over the Sahara and South America and wrote Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince; lost on a reconnaissance flight in 1944
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1900 – 1944
The airmail pilot who crossed the Sahara and the Andes, survived a crash in the desert, wrote The Little Prince and vanished over the Mediterranean