Author: Piers Paul Read

This is a true story, and I believe you all have already heard about it. It is a tragedy, but also a demonstration of faith and hope.

4 decades ago, a chartered flight carrying a Uruguayan Rugby team and their friends/families, flying from Montevideo – Uruguay to Santiago – Chile, crashed in the Andes Mountains due to bad weather and the pilots’ error. The plane split in two, with the tail and 7 people landing far from its body. From the 45 people aboard, 33 survived the crash. This was the 13^th of October 1972.

The next day, 8 more people had died from cold or injuries. The only doctor aboard had died in the crash, so two of the guys who were studying Medicine were left to try their best to treat injuries and keep people alive, even though there were no medical supplies available.

On the 11^th day in the mountains, through a small radio, they discovered that the search for them had been cancelled.

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