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On the 21 of December 1972 two tired and hungry men turned up on a farm in chile.
It turned out that the men was part of a rugbyteam from Uruguay which airplane had dissapered in mountains, around 70 days earlier.

Rescuechoppers was sent to the disasterarea in the snowy mountains where another 14 more survivors could be found.
Of the 45 passageners 13 had been killed in the crash and another 16 had died due to injuries and starvation.

At the start it looked like a mystery that these persons could have survived in the mountains whitout food.
Soon there where alot of rumors going around, and they wasn´t going to stop.

So at a pressconference in Montevideo it was revelead that the surviving had made it by eating of their dead friends.

The dramatic event has been told in books and films, like ”We are Alive!” (a book from 1985) by Piers Paul Read, and the movie ”Alive” (1993) and in the book ”Miracle in the mountains” (2007) written by one of the survivors Nando Parrado.

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