Stranded! The Andes Plane Crash Survivors
A Storyville documentary in which the survivors of a plane crash in the high Andes, who faced extreme hardship and many life or death situations, relive their experiences 30 years later.
In October 1972, a student rugby team boarded a small plane in Montevideo to fly across the Andes for a long weekend of playing rugby and partying in Chile. But they never reached their destination as a storm brought their plane down in the high Andes, leaving the survivors stranded on a remote glacier.
Ill-equipped, with no food and little hope of rescue, the survivors faced extreme hardship and many life-or-death situations, including the agonising decision to eat the flesh of those killed in the crash to stay alive. Thirty years later, those that got down from the mountain relive their 72 days 'up there' to give this extraordinarily powerful, vivid and immediate account of human endurance and heroism.
On TV
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | Gonzalo Arijon |
Series Editor | Nick Fraser |
Broadcasts
- Tue 22 Jan 2008 22:30
- Sun 27 Jan 2008 22:00
- Sun 7 Jun 2009 22:40
- Tue 23 Jun 2009 00:30
- Wed 29 Feb 2012 23:20Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Wales, Scotland & England only
- Wed 29 Feb 2012 23:50Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Northern Ireland
- Tue 11 Oct 2022 22:30
- Mon 30 Dec 2024 22:00
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