Survive after you are “saved”
Relief is what we normally feel after undergoing a live-threatening situation, but for these unfortunate rugby players the struggle was just beginning. As it is described by many sources, on October 13, 1972 a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the Andes. Sixteen from the forty-five passengers made it off the mountain alive, after ten weeks, suffering deprivations beyond imagining, nature threatening, and most of all the constant meeting with various physical obstacles.
The ones who survived the accident did not know what awaited them, a constant struggle against death in order to live. Of the forty-five people who travelled on the plane, thirteen died in the accident or shortly after, including four of the five members of the crew; four others died the next morning due to severe injuries left by the impact, many of them by skull trauma Encephalic and multiple fractures. The 27 remaining had to confront harsh environmental conditions of survival with temperatures from - 25 to - 42 ° C in the frozen mountain. Many of the survivors had suffered various injuries like cuts and bruises, many lacked footwear and clothes for the cold and snow.