Extensive search and rescue operations were launched and supported by authorities in Uruguay, Chile and Argentina, but after ten days with no results the passengers were presumed dead and the search was called off. Then, 70 days after the crash, two bearded and emaciated boys appeared in Chile, coming on foot out of the Andes and declaring themselves to be passengers of the lost plane.
A disbelieving world looked on as the boys led rescuers to discover 14 other survivors from the plane who had lived for over two months on the mountain. Their rescue became an instant media sensation and people from all over the world were aflame to know how they had survived for so long in such a hostile environment. How could such a thing happen? Was he even strong enough? Later that morning, another man appeared on horseback, this time on their side of the river, and soon they were in a hut, being fed hot food.
The Chilean mounted police arrived, and a pack of reporters. Violent turbulence battered and shook the helicopters, which screamed as they attempted to climb the mountain; as soon as they passed over the peak, fierce winds drove them back, forcing them to fly around the mountain and approach from the south, disorienting Parrado, who was filled with fear that he would not be able to find his comrades.
Then, suddenly, he saw black specks on the ice; the two helicopters touched down, rotors still running, and took six of the survivors, disgorging a rescue team to take care of the remainder overnight until their ordeal, too, could finally be ended the following morning. At a hospital in San Fernando, Chile, Farrado was relieved of his layers of filthy clothing and given a warm shower.
As he was being toweled dry, he caught a glimpse of himself in a mirror. He was skin and bones, a shadow of the athletic young man he had been when he boarded the plane two and a half months previously.
But, with each breath he took, he uttered two words to himself, over and over. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you.
Live TV. This Day In History. They did their best to ration these, but they quickly ran out. They were able to melt snow by placing it on metal they had ripped out of the seats. By placing water bottles under it, they could collect water, but it was a slow process. The survivors tried using lipstick to paint S.
Because the plane was white and they were so high up, search crews never found them and the search was called off after only 8 days. On the 11th day, the survivors scavenged a transistor radio from the cockpit and learned that they were on their own. Upon hearing the news, everyone broke down into tears and prayer except for Gustavo Nicolich. He told everyone it was good news, because they were going to rescue themselves.
By giving up hope of being rescued, they could finally make the tough decisions that lay ahead to save themselves.
Giving up hope was the only way to survive. The courage of one person kept the group going. The survivors knew they would have to climb down the mountain, but the combination of altitude sickness, malnourishment, snow blindness, and the extreme cold at night made this almost impossible.
They decided that the only way to survive was to eat the remains of their dead friends and family. But as starvation set in, they justified it by agreeing that if they died, they would want their friends to survive by eating them. Because of the altitude and temperature, the dead passengers were perfectly preserved and the survivors were able to cut out greasy chunks of flesh from posteriors of the dead.
Without resorting to cannibalism, none of them would have made it off that mountain. On October 29th disaster struck again. While they were sleeping, an avalanche rolled down the mountain and filled the cabin of the plane with snow.
Eight of the survivors suffocated as their friends tried to dig each other out. For several days the plane was buried under the snow until it finally melted.
At this point they were out of options. Four of the survivors decided to try and hike out. They were given the warmest clothes and enough rations to survive for several days. Because of a large peak to the west, they decided to go east. After only several hours of walking they discovered the tail section. They decided to keep going but turned back after they almost froze to death the following night.
They returned to the others and set about constructing a sleeping bag from insulation they had scavenged from the tail section. Then all of a sudden, 10 — 6 million years ago things changed. Geologists at the University of Rochester in NY, led by professor Carmala Garzione, revealed that in the last 4 million years the Andes grew by as much as 2, meters. What's more,the Andes are still active.
Alive on Netflix The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive , forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
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The Mid-American Conference had expelled the team for the same reason. Stranded after a plane crash in the Andes mountains, individual members of Uruguay's rugby team respond differently. Group leader Nando Ethan Hawke tries to keep everyone's spirits up; medical student Roberto Josh Hamilton diligently treats cases of frostbite and gangrene; loose cannon Antonio Vincent Spano gradually loses his composure. Once all available food stuffs run out, the group faces a terrible dilemma: eat one or more of their deceased teammates, or die.
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