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By survivors: Algorta, Pedro (2016). Into the Mountains: The Extraordinary True Story of Survival in the Andes and its Aftermath. LID. ISBN 978-1910649411. Canessa, Roberto (2016). I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-6545-7.
The plane crash at the center of Netflix's "Society of the Snow" is based on the true story of a 1972 disaster in the Andes involving a Uruguayan rugby team. ... to cannibalism, eating the bodies ...
In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes mountains, leaving only 16 survivors. To stay alive in the brutally cold conditions, they resorted to cannibalism and were eventually ...
Based on Uruguayan journalist Pablo Vierci’s 2009 book, “Society of the Snow” tells the true story of survivors of the 1972 Andes flight disaster who had to take extreme measures, including ...
Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crash aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.
The book was published two years after the survivors were rescued. The author interviewed many of the survivors as well as the family members of the passengers. He wanted to write the story as it had happened without embellishment. The author wrote: I was given a free hand in writing this book by both the publisher and the sixteen survivors.
Spanish director J.A. Bayona’s “Society of the Snow,” a reconstruction of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes that forced survivors to take extreme measures, including cannibalism, has been set ...
I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash is a 2010 television documentary recounting the tragedy of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains from the perspective of survivor Nando Parrado.