Alive: The Miracle of the Andes

Alive: The Miracle of the Andes is a 1993 movie directed by Frank Marshall that narrates this story which is one of (if not the most) notable cases of surviving cannibalism in modern history. On October 13, 1972, a Fairchild FH-227 twin turboprop airplane departed from Montevideo carrying the Uruguayan rugby team from the Stella Maris (Christian Brothers) school, who were on the way to play a friendly game in Chile. Along with the team were some relatives and friends. The plane crashed in the Andes near the border between Chile and Argentina. After several weeks of starvation and struggle for survival, the numerous survivors decided to eat the body of the deceased in order to survive. On the 62nd day of their ordeal, three the survivors Nando Parrado, Roberto Canessa, and Antonio Vizintin, decided to venture down in the ice and snow, and finally saw a man with a horse, who helped to take them to a telephone. A military helicopter of Chile arrived and saved the rest of the people.

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\n* Internet Movie Database (IMDb) entry for ''Alive: The Miracle of the Andes \n