Rugby Team that Servived from the Unthinkable.

kukku baba

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    Machan la, meka patta story ekkak, man iye dakka mekama ela kiri eke post karala thiyenwa. eth wadiya details thibbe na.

    So man details aran story ekkak widihata edit kala.

    Kiyawela balanna.



    Uruguayan Flight 571
    , was carrying 45 people, a rugby team, their friends, family and associates for a Rugby Match in Chili on October 13, 1972.

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    20 min left to Land, the flight crashed to a mountian area in Andes.the mountian is coverd with snow.

    The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about 7,000 km (4,300 mi) long, about 200 km (120 mi) to 700 km (430 mi) wide (widest between 18 degrees South and 20 degrees South latitude), and of an average height of about 4,000 m (13,000 ft).


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    More than a quarter of the passengers died in the crash, and several more quickly succumbed to cold and injury.

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    actual pic taken fro a camera they had



    The survivors had little food and no source of heat in the harsh conditions at over 3,600 metres (11,800 ft) altitude.

    Faced with starvation and radio news reports that the search for them had been abandoned,

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    The survivors had a small amount of food: a few chocolate bars, assorted snacks and several bottles of wine. During the days following the crash they divided out this food in very small amounts so as not to exhaust their supply

    They devised a way to melt snow into water by using metal from the seats and placing snow on it.

    Their food stock dwindled quickly. Furthermore, there was no natural vegetation or animals on the snow-covered mountain.
    The group thus survived by collectively making a decision to eat flesh from the bodies of their dead friends, beginning with the pilot. This decision was not taken lightly, as most were classmates or close friends

    The survivors fed on the dead passengers who had been preserved in the snow.



    Of the 29 who were alive a few days after the accident, another eight were killed by an avalanche that swept over their shelter in the wreckage.


    Rescuers did not learn of the survivors until 72 days after the crash when passengers Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, after a 10-day trek across the Andes, found a person in a remort village, who gave them food and then alerted authorities about the existence of the other survivors.


    The last 14 survivors were rescued on December 23, 1972, more than two months after the crash.


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    one found a camera from the crash sight and tooks severel photos of theire expiriance.

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    dakka da dakunu atha patthy anthimata inna kenage langin thiyena ekka:shocked:

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    Rescur Picture

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    ONE OF THE MOVE LATER MADE






    Now they are alive to tell their story of that unforgetable time of their lives.
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    eghty

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    there's a book called " Alive ", it's about this story , later it was made in to a movie , but book the is better .