In October 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying 45 people, including a rugby team, their friends, and family, crashed in the remote Andes Mountains while en route from Montevideo to Santiago, Chile. The crash left 33 survivors stranded in freezing, high-altitude conditions with no vegetation, food, or hope of quick rescue. As days passed and search efforts ceased, the survivors were forced to make the unimaginable decision to survive by eating the bodies of their deceased friends. Thei