Alive

A few years back - more like 20 years ago, I remember watching a movie called Alive with my housemates in Sheffield. All of us were Medical Students back then and the subject behind the movie interested us. It was about survival, and what happen if you were to neat another human being.....

Funny then kind of things that interested us back then. Anyhow, it was a real story of survival and it was based on a true tale. A group of rugby players from Uruguay was on the way to Chile when their plane crashed at the top of the Andes Mountains due to what turned out to be pilot's error.

There were no means for escape for the survivors and after the rescue mission were called off, they had to find their way out ton alert the public. And it took them more than a couple of months before they were rescued after a daring trek down the mountain by a couple the fellow survivors.

As their food store depleted, they had to resort to eating the passengers who perished. A lot ethical issues here, but it was a matter of live or death.

Ten days of trekking in such treacherous condition. They were finally rescued after 72 days in the mountains. They were taken out just in time for Christmas 1972.

This afternoon, I watched a documentary on Discovery in what actually happened. And the actual survivors from the flight were interviewed. A group of mountaineers also went to trace the actual route that they took to take them back to civilisation. The survivors also returned to the site, and the story of their lives since the event were also told.

Fascinating stuff.