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20/20

Prisoners of the Snow: A Special Edition of 20/20

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 recount how they fought to stay alive while stranded in the Andes Mountains 50 years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is like the Titanic of the year.

0:09.0

The story of this rugby team and their fight to survive.

0:13.0

We hit the mountains and I couldn't believe it were a crushing.

0:23.0

I realized that death was my next chapter.

0:29.0

People dying, people shouting, people screaming.

0:32.0

There are 12 people who died incredibly 33 at the life.

0:37.0

Without tents, food and a way out of there, nobody gets survived.

0:43.0

Everybody was waiting for helicopters to come.

0:46.0

I mean they said they have put men on the moon now.

0:51.0

How can they not find us?

0:53.0

Nobody was coming to help them. Nobody.

0:57.0

They were starving.

0:58.0

They would have to consume the dead.

1:02.0

The decision was, or living or dying and we don't want to die.

1:07.0

It would become the most talked about thing about their survival.

1:11.0

I'm not dead.

1:12.0

Why?

1:13.0

We were dead men walking, but we are still walking.

1:18.0

The story of this rugby team and the story of this rugby team.

1:21.0

The story of this rugby team and the story of this rugby team.

1:25.0

Survival fascinates people because people they ask themselves,

1:30.0

how would I react on a situation like this one?

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