[From The Vault 🔐] Flight 571: Survival in the Andes

From The Vault 🔐 — normally a member-only episode, unlocked this month for everyone. -- In 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed high in the Andes. Stranded in freezing mountains, the young survivors faced hunger, avalanches, and a terrible moral choice. It would become one of history’s greatest survival stories. 1972 Andes plane crash of Uruguayan rugby teamNavigation error; early descent; crash into mountainSurvivors shelter in plane body; bitter cold at nightStudent doctors treat injuries with improvised toolsMelting snow for water; radio says search is cancelledStarvation leads to agreement to eat the...