Who could resist the temptation after this Dorothy Rabinowitz review (near bottom):
It isn't often that people get to explain, on national television, why they ate their companions. Still, that, exactly, is what the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash get to do on "Stranded" -- an Independent Lens film (airing Tuesday, [May 19] 10 p.m. [E] to midnight on PBS, check local listings).
This ain't "Survivor."
A few years after this event happened a best selling book about the experience left people hungry for more (information). The rugby players on that plane were physically fit to begin with, but it was an ordeal for everyone involved when they found themselves stranded on a snow covered mountain. Once they came to terms with the realization that no one would ever find them they decided that someone would have to hike through the miles of snow to find another living human being.
And there was the lack of food, but you'll learn all about that if you watch the program.
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