"This was the most compellingly upbeat story since the lunar landings."

'This was the most compellingly upbeat story since the lunar landings. It was a rare privilege to be there to watch it unfold'

I cannot agree more with the title of the story.

More on the reaction:

It was the little boy who did it for me. Bairon Avalos, seven years old, crying buckets as it finally dawned on him that, yes, Daddy really was coming home. When he ran up to greet his father, Florencio, the first of the 33 miners to step out of the metal cage, it really did feel like the whole of Chile was weeping with him.