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In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed high in the Andes. Stranded in freezing mountains, the young survivors faced hunger, avalanches, and a terrible moral choice.
It would become one of history’s greatest survival stories.1972 Andes plane crash of Uruguayan rugby teamNavigation error; early descent; crash into mountainSurvivors shelter in plane body; bitter cold at nightStudent doctors treat injuries with improvised toolsMelting snow for water; radio says search is cancelledStarvation leads to agreement to eat the deadDeadly avalanche buries shelter; more survivors dieTail of plane found; batteries fail; sleeping bag createdParrado and Canessa walk west; find help by noteHelicopter rescue; 16 survive; public debate and aftermath
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