Frank Marshall · 1993 · survival

Frank Marshall's 1993 film, from the true 1972 disaster. A Uruguayan rugby team's chartered plane crashes high in the snowbound Andes on the way to Chile, stranding the survivors at 12,000 feet with no food and no rescue coming. Through avalanche, cold and an agonizing choice to survive, two of them finally climb out over the mountains on a ten-day trek to find help in the Chilean foothills.

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   Montevideo

   The Uruguayan capital the young rugby team leaves aboard a chartered flight bound across the Andes for a match in Chile - a routine trip that ends in catastrophe.

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   The crash site

   The remote glacier high in the Andes where the plane goes down, stranding the survivors in the snow at altitude, enduring cold, starvation and avalanche for over two months.

3. 3
   Los Maitenes

   The Chilean valley reached after two survivors climb out over a 15,000-foot ridge and descend for ten days, finding a herdsman across a river who brings the rescue at last.