Season cannibalism: the team of rugby players for 72 days survived by eating the corpses of the dead

Incredible ispytanieDelo was in October 1972. Uruguayan rugby team flew youth in Chile with friends and family, only 45 people from the crew of the aircraft. To fly from Uruguay to Chile in a small airplane, it was necessary first long fly to the south of Argentina, go around the southern part of the Andes, and then fly to the north, because directly above the mountains unsafe to fly. However, the pilot is there turned north, the plane hit a mountain peak and broke into pieces. The fuselage with all the passengers slid down the snow as sled down on the plateau. During the crash 12 people died and five others were missing. The next day they were found dead.





The captain of a sports team, Nando Parrado, who put together the corpses that had lain in the snow at minus thirty dozens of hours, woke up. Doctors who examined him later said that he was saved exactly what it felt dead and put in the cold. This cryotherapy slowed all the processes in the body and brain hemorrhage, which arose after a head injury and cause coma, stopped, and the brain was able to recover.

The plane flew from Nando his mother and younger sister. His mother died and his sister was seriously wounded and never regained consciousness. Nando crawled over to her sister and hugged her and held until she died - four nights and three days.





There is a saying the poor to marry - and the night is short. In other words, the failure simply pursued the ill-fated flight of passengers. Not only that, they had never seen snow, left without food, shelter and warm clothes in winter completely deserted area at an altitude of 3600 meters. Two weeks later, the survivors covered the avalanche, and he was not even eight passengers. Three days of living with corpses were clamped in a confined space with snow remnants of the aircraft. In order to save all, already mentioned above Parrado kicks knocked a small window in the cockpit. Three people have died from the wounds and frostbite in the following days. A total of 45 passengers survived only 16. After 11 days after the crash, they heard on the radio that stopped their search and they all presumed dead. The fact that the crashed plane was white and merged with the snow-covered mountain landscape.

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