Andes Crash

En octobre 1972, un avion s'écrase dans la cordillère des Andes, à 4000 mètres d'altitude. A son bord se trouvaient les jeunes joueurs d'une équipe de rugby de Montevideo. Les rescapés engagent une lutte sans merci pour leur survie, qui va durer 72 jours. Au bout de dix jours, alors que la nourriture vient à manquer, ils apprennent que les recherches ont été abandonnées. Ils finissent par être contraints de manger les victimes du crash, transgressant un interdit majeur. Un geste dramatique qui s'est mué en communion et qui leur a permis d'échapper à la mort. Près de 35 ans plus tard, ils racontent cette incroyable aventure.

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. The only thing the team has riding on after losing so many of their good friends and family members is the slim chance of making it through alive and their faithfulness to God.

On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished over the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. But for 16 survivors, including 20 year-old Nando Parrado, what they experienced was worse than death. Trapped in the sub-zero degree temperatures for over 72 days, the survivors faced circumstances that no human should ever have to endure. Fighting just to stay alive, hope was a cruel mirage in a landscape that offered nothing but despair and death.