The Andes Tragedy: 50 Years Later

In the most extraordinary story of survival in one of the most extreme environments known to man, we revisit the infamous tragedy of flight 571 through the eyes of survivors and experts, revealing never before known facts about the case. In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team disappeared into the Argentinean Andes - an area so remote that some of its mountains has not even been named. Freezing, starving, and given up for dead, the surviving passengers resorted to eating the flesh of their deceased friends to stay alive. After 2 1/2 months, two survivors set off on a 40-mile mission of certain death in the hope of finding rescue. What transpired almost defies belief. Now, 50 years after one of the greatest ordeals of survival in recorded human history, the full story is finally, comprehensively told through the worlds of each of those who lived it. A film crew returns to the site of the crash with a survivor to see what surprising secrets the glacier is finally giving up.