On October 12?? 1972?? a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote?? snow-peaked Andes. Out of the forty-five original passengers and crew?? only sixteen made it off the mountain alive. For ten excruciating weeks they suffered deprivations beyond imagining?? confronting nature head-on at its most furious and inhospitable. And to survive?? they were forced to do what would have once been unthinkable ...
This is their story -- one of the most astonishing true adventures of the twentieth century.