![]() “The conditions were more horrifying than you can ever imagine. ![]() Members of a Chilean police rescue patrol help Fernando Parrada after his ten day trek to civilization Friday, December 22, 1972 Of the 45 passengers aboard, 16 survived by feeding on dead family members and friends preserved in the snow. The men were stranded in the mountains for 72 days after the air force plane that carried their team crashed in a mountain pass in October 1972 while en route from Montevideo to Santiago for the planned game. Several members of a Uruguayan rugby team who survived that disaster – which came to known as the ‘Miracle of the Andes’ – met up on the 40th anniversary of the crash, in 2012, to play a match against former Chilean players.
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