Miracle Of The Andes: 72 Days of Horrific Survival

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach has chilling tale of Survival and Tenacity.

A bad day can spiral fast. Were heading to 1972 and a chartered flight over the Andes that never made its landing. The crash of Flight 571 left a rugby team, family, and friends in brutal cold with little food, less shelter, and a strong will to survive. What follows is a stark, deeply human account of ingenuity and ethics under pressure.

We don’t sensationalize the hardest part. The group confronts cannibalism with consent, ritual, and faith, reframing a taboo as a last-resort act of respect to preserve life. An avalanche buries more hope. A radio announces the search is over. And then two men decide to walk over 40 miles to get help.

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Reference Shout Outs: 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571

• https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231213-society-of-the-snow-the-horrifying-story-of-the-1972-andes-plane-crash-is-also-one-of-survival-and-generosity

• https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoricalCapsule/comments/1kbpdtg/the_1972_andes_plane_crash_survivors_endured_72/

• https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223078048/society-of-the-snow-ja-bayona-1972-plane-crash-cannibalism

• https://www.britannica.com/event/Uruguayan-Air-Force-flight-571

• https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-1972-andes-flight-disaster-1a9900f4-7bdf-431f-8b55-48a25a9feb1e

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBbDBnq7TY

• https://www.today.com/popculture/andes-uruguay-plane-crash-1972-survivors-now-rcna133498

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