On 13 October 1972, a flight with 45 people on board took off from Uruguay. The passengers were a rugby team, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, on their way to play a match in Chile. But the plane never made it there, instead crash landing in The Andes mountains. Those who survived found themselves stranded in one of the most inaccessible and inhospitable places imaginable.
What happened over the next 72 days is known as ‘The Miracle of the Andes’, and is one of the greatest survival stories of the last century. Now over 50 years on, a new film tells the remarkable story of the crash and what happened afterwards.
