----red mountain tragedy---

date: 15 of july 1973
location: training camp n23 / 2km away from the mountain chain (name: red mountian)

Soldier Ferinald Rojas:i remember that day, it was one of our final days of training of mountain biome, we had to march on 3 journeys the first was 30km , then the other day 10km and the last day where 40km, my platoon was in charge of first lieutenant Cooper, my brother was also with us and some old friends of mine.

That day we woke up at 5 AM, we ate breakfast and got our equipment ready , from what i heard 2 generals where going to come with us o the march, geneal Ignacio lyrcoon and general Foxtrot Borkvon, we stated our march at 6:30 AM i was one of the first ones on the line. at aprox 7:20 am we started to see the first signs of disaster when it started to snow, our lieutenant said that snow was predicted for today, that it was the reason of the extra coat layers, so we continued our march.
now it was 8 AM when really cold wind started to hit us , also the snowing increased by a lot, even tho we had extra coat layers i started to feel cold, the visivility decreased a lot and by that time i heard grl. lyrcoon say: "i have a bad feeling about this", after that everything went bad.
it was 8:30 AM now and everything cot colder and also the wind got stronger, our visivility was not higher than 100m. We stopped for a while and i heard our lieutenant talk with grl lyrcoon and grl borkvon, after their conversation grl borkvon seemed a bit angry and annoyed but we countinued, after only 10 minutes grl borvon said that there was a change of plans, that we where going to be headed to a shelter located 4km away from our location, our lieutenant didnt seem to understand what was happening, and he looked a bit angry and had a disscussion with grl borkvon, grl borkvon got angry and punched our lieutenant and then said. i take control now. we didnt understood what was happening.
it was 9 AM and everything got worse, our visibility was reduced from 100m to only 20m and the wind was getting colder and the snow kept falling by that time i felt really cold and when i looked back i was not able to see the end of the line, when i was watching i saw someone fall and saw how grl borkvon ran towards him, the he picked him up with the help of a pirvate that was at the middle of the line, after some moments grl lyrcoon fell on a hole and broke his leg, grl borkvon said to cooper that he had to help the guy that fell due cold, then he ran to help lyrcoon , i saw him had lots of trouble picking him up so i decided to help.
he told me to not worry about him and gave me a map with the location of the shelter marked on it, he told me to go and guide the others, that he knows how to get there but that if we waited for him we would all die.
i ran towards the line and said where we had to go when one of my friends fell, he was cold and shaking a lot then he told me that i had to go that he was not going to make it i tried to help him i dragged him a few meters but then he died, he died on my hands without being able to do something about it, after that i guided the rest to the shelter.

after some minutes we made it to the shelter we where 30 on the shelter, cooper was with us but no other high rank was there, after 15 minutes grl borvon got into the shelter, alone, he didnt say a thing and then fell to the floor, i dragged him into the interior of the shelter where we turned on a fire, he woke up 30 mins later, i asked what happend, he told me that his friend died that he almost didnt made it, he looked really sad and was shaking a lot.

we had to wait 4 hours until the storm ceased and 5 more hours until rescue arrived, that day we lost 22 men.

-after that day foxtrot was not the same-