With surprising speed - and flawless execution - a miner who has climbed the mountain man in a small cage in the underground rock 2,000 meters Chile stopped and saw the sunshine Wednesday, after the inclusion of meters longer history.
By nightfall, 29 of the 33 miners, including the most vulnerable and the sick, was the freedom and the officials appeared prepared the way for pulling data mining and last until midnight (11 GMT).
After 69 days underground, including two weeks in which it was feared the men came to the exuberant cheers from Chile and in the eyes of an enchanted world. The operation quickly took the day, but every miner was met with exuberant applause El Salvador itself.
"Welcome to life," said President Sebastián Piñera, said Mike Miner SEGV 15. In a day of superlatives, it seemed an exaggeration.
They said the world is a great curiosity about his experience and offer some fame and employment. unimaginable wealth of men waiting for their lives at risk and the volatility of the copper gold mine for about $ 1,600 per LUN
Miners goes smoothly inside a capsule called the Phoenix - 13 meters, barely wider than the shoulders and painted white, blue and red flag of Chile. It 'was a door that sometimes freezes and the wheels need lubrication at least once, but it worked exactly as expected.
From midnight on Tuesday, and sometimes faster than every 25 minutes, the gondola of nearly half a mile away, as 700,000 tons of rock collapsed and buried the men on August 5.