The Bread That Carried Them Home

In 2010, thirty-three Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San José copper mine for sixty-nine days. In those first seventeen days before rescuers drilled a narrow borehole to reach them, the men survived on almost nothing — two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk, a single cracker every forty-eight hours. They rationed each morsel with trembling hands.…