#I AM ALIVE ENDING PLUS#
Combining a staged recreation of the events along with interviews from the two men, Fernando Parrado and Roberto Canessa, who made the long trek from the crash site into Chile, plus several other survivors, I AM ALIVE also reveals, though interviews with aeronautical and mountain climbing veterans, aspects of the crash and the subsequent ordeal that were not necessarily known by the public at large, or even the survivors, at the time.
This is the story told by the History Channel's 2010 documentary film I AM ALIVE: SURVIVING THE ANDES PLANE CRASH. And in those 72 days, those involved had to make arguably the most horrifying decision imaginable in order to survive. Out of the forty passengers, many of whom were members of a Uruguayan rugby crew traveling to Chile to play a match, only sixteen people made it out alive. It came to an end on December 22, 1972, when two of the survivors of the crash hiked thirty-seven miles out of the Andes and west into Chile. It began on October 13, 1972, when a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying forty passengers and a crew of five went off course and crashed in the Andes. There's probably no greater a 20th century survival story than what became known as the Miracle Of The Andes. Parrado, who lost his mother, sister, and scores of friends among the 29 victims of Uruguayan Flight 571, shares a complete, candid and unflinching account of the 72 days of suffering that followed the crash, including factors that led to his courageous decision to climb out of the mountains and-together with fellow survivor Roberto Canessa-save 15 others. For the first time ever, the hero of Uruguayan Flight 571, Nando Parrado, tells his story in its entirety. Against all odds one man led an expedition into the mountains in a desperate attempt to reach civilization. Fighting just to stay alive, hope was a cruel mirage in a landscape that offered nothing but despair and death. Trapped in the sub-zero degree temperatures for over 72 days, the survivors faced circumstances that no human should ever have to endure. But for 16 survivors, including 20 year-old Nando Parrado, what they experienced was worse than death. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished over the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains.