Alive : the story of the Andes survivors

In October 1972 a plane carrying an amateur team of rugby players from Montevideo to Santiago crashed in the Andes. Ten weeks later only sixteen of the forty-five passengers and crew were found alive. This is the story of their ten week ordeal, clinging to life without food. Rather than die of starvation, the survivors made the difficult decision to use the bodies of their dead companions for food. After 60 days and with no rescue in sight, two of the hardiest were selected to find a way out. They reached help ten days later. Source: jacket copy and introduction True story of a plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains with 45 persons on board, only 16 survived!! The few who survived for 70 days did so by means of cannibalism !!! Very graphic, but an extremely good read to find out what us humans will do to survive !! God puts these young people to the extreme test!! Uruguay, one of the smallest countries on the South American continent, was founded on the eastern bank of the River Plate as a buffer state between the emerging giants of Brazil and Argentina.