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I remember watching this movie many years ago. After watching the doco tonight with the actual survivors telling their story, it was far more realistic & chilling.
How many of us could have done what they did to survive, I'm sure I couldn't, amazing story of survival & fantastic to see at the end, the families of the people they sacrificed, could accept that & remained friends with them.
Did they actually sacrifice the people? I thought they just ate the ones that died in the crash or from injuries afterwards?
I read the original book about this crash nearly 30yrs ago....to this day it remains the most riveting book i have read...the emotion it built during the read was amazing, I cried like a baby at the end when they arrived home and what they went through...
They didn't sacrifice anyone, but they had to make the decision as each person died, in order for some of them to survive....that in itself was monumental as they were very religious..
Still an incredible story after all this time...
Did they actually sacrifice the people? I thought they just ate the ones that died in the crash or from injuries afterwards?
I used the wrong word, they only cut up & ate people who had died.
sandeano
25 Nov 2009, 21:05
I used the wrong word, they only cut up & ate people who had died.
The original movie was called Survive
When I was about 5 years old I won tickets to see this film by telling a joke on the radio. I even remember the joke:
"What did the lion say when he say the boy on rollerskates?"
"Grrr...meals on wheels".
Yep, champagne comedy. In any case, why they were giving away tickets for that film to kids is beyond me. We gave them to my older cousin.
HarryTiger
26 Nov 2009, 13:36
Yeah that was my second viewing of the doco, it's really quite rivetting.
It interested me enough to do research (i.e. check wikipedia)
Here's the google earth co-ordinates of the site
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-34.765,-70.286389&spn=0.01,0.01&t=h&q=-34.765,-70.286389 (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-34.765,-70.286389&spn=0.01,0.01&t=h&q=-34.765,-70.286389)
If you go to terrain view you can see the large bowl that they found themselves in. The white line is the chile/argentina border.
The expedition that got them out walked west, over the bowl and then WSW until it got to the river (satellite view). I believe not far down from that river junction they met the cattle farmers. Distance wise it wasn't that far but snow, altitude and their poor health made it difficult. With hindsight perhaps setting out earlier would have made sense given they weren't so far from green valleys.