The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The Netflix hit film Society of the Snow is the true story of South American athletes trapped in the snowy mountains after a plane crash…with some surviving by eating their dead teammates. Now we look at the Donner party of pioneers in 1846, trapped in 22 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains…and the even more gruesome way some of them survived.
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| 0:00.0 | Did you catch Society of the Snow on Netflix? |
| 0:02.8 | Of course, it's the true story of a rugby team from Uruguay 50 years ago |
| 0:06.9 | whose airliner crashed in the snowy mountains of Argentina. |
| 0:10.3 | They survived by eating their dead teammates. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, in 1846, the Donner Party of pioneers headed west and were stranded for the winter in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. |
| 0:21.0 | They had an even more gruesome survival story. I'm Patty Steele. What |
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