Living Like Rescued Men

On August 5, 2010, thirty-three miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. For seventeen days, no one on the surface knew if they were alive. Then a drill bit broke through the rock, and a note came back wrapped around it: Estamos bien en el refugio, los 33 — We are fine in the shelter, all 33 of us.…