(Cosmetics Beauty News) Stranded: The Andes Plane Crash Survivors - The Age

It is impertinent to insist this would be a mistake, absurd to expect anybody to believe that the contents - at one point at least - are going to make you smile as two of the survivors, grown older by 35 years, chuckle at their memories. They are sitting in snow alongside the wreck of the converted Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild F-27 in which, in October 1972 they were travelling with 43 other passengers when it crashed in the Valley of the Tears, high in the Andes. This is the story of how the survivors managed to stay alive only when they overcame their taboos and ate the frozen flesh of the dead. Director Arijon films the survivors at the snowbound crash site where they existed for 72 days before being spotted by shepherds. read more