On October 13, 1972, a plane with forty-five people on board took off from Montevideo in Uruguay. Its destination was supposed to be Chile, but it never arrived.
Instead, the plane crashed horrifically deep in the Andes mountains. Astonishingly, a remarkable 33 survivors found themselves facing the prospect of a bitter winter in the mountains, completely alone. How do you survive being stranded in the middle of the Andes? For those left on Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, the answer involved courage, tenacity, and eating the bodies of their dead comrades.
