In 1972, a 45-passenger plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed during a thunderstorm in the Andes, ultimately leaving 16 survivors. Their story, complete with revelations of cannibalism, was extensively chronicled in Piers Paul Read's 1974 bestseller "Alive," but there's nothing quite ...
ANDES MOUNTAINS, SOUTH AMERICA: Director JA Bayona's latest survival thriller film, ‘Society of the Snow’ revisits the harrowing events of the 1972 Uruguayan air crash in the remote Andes Mountains, delivering a powerful and emotionally charged narrative based on the book by...
I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash: Directed by Brad Osborne. With James Lentzsch, Benjamin Josse, Kelly Haitz, Cindy Latch. On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished o