Encore: Plane Crash in the Andes | The Crash | 1

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In October 1972, an Uruguayan rugby team traveling to their next match in Santiago, Chile, crashes into the Andes Mountains after their plane strikes a glacier. Stranded on the snow-covered side of a mountain, they will have to do the unthinkable to survive.

Initially, 29 passengers survive the collision but they must endure freezing temperatures with no winter clothes and only a few light snacks for food. The landscape is barren, and as night falls, the temperature drops below zero. The remaining survivors have no idea if help is coming. They will have to battle starvation, hypothermia, blizzards, and avalanches for more than two months before finally finding the strength to try and save themselves.

It's the incredible true story of survival in the elements and two young men's attempt to hike to civilization and get them all out.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Against the Odds ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:05.1	Download the app today.
0:06.9	Hey, I'm Cassie DePackle, host of Against the Odds, where we tell true stories of people
0:12.5	triumphant in the toughest conditions.
0:15.5	On October 13, 1972, a small plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed, leaving them
0:22.5	stranded in the Andes, trapped on a snow-covered mountain with no hope of rescue.
0:28.8	The men had to resort to extreme measures to survive.
0:33.0	Last October, 16 of the survivors gathered to mark the 50th anniversary of the crash.
0:39.6	We're re-airing this story now, a testament to their determination.
0:44.4	This episode originally aired in 2021.
0:56.4	It's mid-afternoon on October 13, 1972.
1:03.1	Nando Parado looks at the window of a small turboprop plane as it flies through the towering snow-covered
1:09.5	peaks of the Andes Mountains.
1:12.3	It's spring in the southern hemisphere, but the sky is gray and dark clouds float past
1:18.0	Nando's window.
1:20.8	Nando plays rugby for the old Christians, one of the best amateur teams in Uruguay.
1:26.6	The team has chartered this plane to take the players and their supporters to a game in
1:30.9	Santiago, Chile.
1:33.4	Nando is 22 years old and a serious athlete, but they're just playing an exhibition game
1:39.7	in Chile, so this trip is more like a vacation.
1:43.6	The flight already feels like a party.
1:46.1	These teammates, mostly students in their late teens and early 20s, are chatting and laughing,
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