A half century after their plane crashed into the Andes, the survivors who resorted to cannibalism to stay alive came together this week in Uruguay to remember their grisly ordeal. The story of ...

More than 30 years have passed since “Alive,” the movie based on the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team whose flight crashed in the Andes in 1972, forcing survivors to resort to cannibalism.

Released in 1993, Alive was an adaptation of Piers Paul Read's book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and was directed by Frank Marshall. It starred Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton, Vincent Spano ...

The survivors of an 1972 Andes plane crash have recalled the extreme measures they had to take in order to stay alive including resorting to cannibalism. Sixteen people survived when a team ...

A pivotal moment in the story of the Flight 571 survivors is when ... sort of “shock” sequence: in Alive, as Nando and Roberto prepare to hike out of the Andes, there is a brief shot of ...

Although the story was christened 'The Miracle of the Andes' it soon became clear that the survivors had been forced to resort to desperate measures to stay alive. A new film about their ordeal ...

They started eating out of skulls, making a cuisine out of flesh,” Piers Paul Read, the British author of Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, said. open image in gallery Roberto Canessa at ...