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Eleder Piñeiro Aguiar, Ayudante-Doctor en Facultad de Sociología, Universidade da Coruña

The Andes flight disaster that gave birth to the Society of the Snow

Still from the film 'Society of the Snow', by J. A. Bayona. Netflix

What are the limits of the human body? How much pain and suffering can our bodies withstand? What would we be willing to endure for our loved ones? Is solidarity something natural, or does it come to us only in certain moments of our lives?

These questions do not have one answer. They are the subject of numerous discussions and interpretations, and have been asked in countless groups, societies, cultures and civilisations, becoming the topic of both scholarly and everyday debate. When faced with tragic situations, people have been forced to confront them in some way, though often with varying degrees of success.

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