In October 1972, a plane crashed in a remote part of the Andes, and a group of young rugby players survived for 72 days in the snow with no means of finding food.
Dr Roberto Jorge Canessa is a Uruguayan peadiatric cardiologist and one of the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.
Canessa spoke to BBC News about his harrowing experience.
The survivors were discovered after two of the players trekked for days with no specialist equipment or clothes to get help.
The starving passengers of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were only able to stay alive by eating the bodies of those who did not survive.
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Remember watching it on Nat Geo a long time ago
Absolutely incredible and tragic story. Shows how strong the body can be when the mind is committed
This isn't news…This is yet again some idiot at the BBC with an almost perverse nature about them wanting to explore the deepest, darkest & most desperate side of human nature in adverse conditions & make a feature about it….
I am so happy to see this man who is brave and smart. Hope he is continuing his wonderful life ❤
Watched the movie at theatre when it first released, I was a teenager. It was a great story and movie, happy that this survivor still live and teach us how important to be alive and be in peace with nearly everything.
There are normal people, and there are people who watch Society of the Snow in a plane.
Society of the snow is an amazing film !! Would recommend
Of course, you would eat your DEAD friends to survive. Anyone judging them is absolutely delusional.
What a life that man has lived!
And the answer to his most asked question is.
It tastes like pork.
Ive read the book about their experience, absolutely life changing, makes you appreciate life more!
No flipping me off Maryam?
Please save Indian 🇮🇳 democracy
Is she the same lady who was showing middle finger to her colleague?
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I just watched a video about this a few days ago.
Either Thoughty² or Ray William Johnson.
It's a mad story. Personally, I'd rather just wait for death, rather than prolong what seemed inevitable.
Either wait it out in the wreckage or try and make it back to civilisation and if I don't make it, so be it.
So now the BBC believes that 1972 is "news"
What’s crazy is if they left sooner they’d be alive
"Let me remind you of the story." Literally everyone knows the story. Several years ago the members left of the two rugby teams met and finally played the game they were meant to play.
Intelligent man! Survived because he was rational!
A non-native using the word "harrowing" impresses me.
My there rest in peace 🙏
The questions are ridiculous
“What made you come to that decision” (cannibalism)
“Do you think you would’ve survived without having done that”
BBC, please do better
I read the book when i was in high school (1995 or 96), and i remember everything in that book til now. Even me as a teen just directly approved what they did to survive and wish to tell them that if i were the dead friend i would let them eat my flesh rather than letting them die from starving. From the book i could imagine how it became a nightmare for them when they finally decieded to cut the flesh of their friend and the first time that matchbox size flesh were eaten that they couldn't even chew it. I haven't watch the movie and maybe will not because the book has given me crystal clear vision of their days up there.
This movie is amazing.. Still shocks me to know it didn't win any oscars. I don't think I've ever felt so many emotions watching any movie before, but this movie made me feel all the emotions.
It’s called Survival mode
'Do you think you'd have survived two months without food' is essentially what she asked, what kind of question is that. The guy is like I did do it and I still lost 30 kilos what do you think
What a decision to make. I dont know how i would react to this situation. Very disturbing indeed
"Cannibalism and Optimism" Wasn't that a Spice Girls song?
If the temperatures were – i wonder how the managed to get by with the eating….
Very disturbing
This is crazy because last night i had a dream about chickens and this morning i woke up with a c**k in my hand😂😂😂😂
Roberto, I admire you and all that survived the crash. I love the way you are describing the conditions, you are so down to earth. Thanks for sharing your survival experience, good to see you alive and healthy.
It is an incredible,unheard story that requires a lot of guts to understand what happened then, particularly,the part describing eating human flesh to survive the hardship caused by the plane crash.but telling this story to the kids,that, I don't recommend 😲
Funny thing is at that time the pope, well fed with the best dishes money can buy, gave his pardon to the survivors because they have eat human flesh.
The survivors definitely murdered people.
the Byzantines will not allow this hypocrite doctor zelensky to defraud them of their resources
its not ethical behavior the scythian consumes human flesh
doctor zelensky these are my organs you cannot eat those
doctor zelensky it is not ethical to consume human organs
the pope and doctor zelensky have issues with natural law
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