Seventy-Two Days in the Andes
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Seventy-Two Days in the Andes
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On the thirteenth of October, 1972, a Fairchild carrying forty-five people — most of them connected to an amateur rugby club from Montevideo — struck a ridge in the Andes and broke apart at around eleven and a half thousand feet. Search aircraft flew for eight days, from a position report that was wrong, looking for a white fuselage lying on snow. On the twenty-first of October the survivors heard on a transistor radio that the search had been suspended. One of them reportedly called it good news, because it meant they now knew they would have to get out themselves. Twenty-nine died on that mountain — in the crash, in an avalanche seventeen days later, and of injury and exposure. Sixteen came home. The survivors have spent fifty years correcting the way this story gets told, and this episode tells it their way: forty-five people, of whom sixteen came back.
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