Word: canessa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even after their decision, many of the survivors could not bring themselves to eat human flesh. Finally, a medical student, Roberto Canessa, cut some matchstick-sized slivers from one of the bodies, placed them on the battered aluminum roof of the plane to dry in the sun and then, to prove his resolution, forced himself to eat one. All but two of the others eventually followed his lead. Despite their cannibalism, the boys evolved a careful set of rules to govern their conduct. Food was still rationed, and a series of priorities developed to determine which bodies were...
Toboggan. When the F-27 took off again, the storm had abated, but the flight over the Andes proved to be rough going. Still in a holiday mood, the rugby players happily yelled "?Ole!" or "?Conga!" each time the turboprop hit an air pocket. But then, recalled Roberto Canessa, a 19-year-old medical student, "I looked out as we turned and saw a mountain only a few feet away." Without warning, the plane hit a peak and slid like a toboggan for half a mile down an 80° slope. When the plane finally stopped in a huge snowdrift...
...group made a desperate move. Two of them, Canessa and Fellow Medical Student Fernando Parrado, 22, would set out westward down the mountains in hopes of reaching civilization; it was decided that if in 15 days they had not been heard from, two more members would go to seek help. On the seventh day, however, using the plane's compass, Canessa and Parrado managed to reach the Azufre River and sighted a shepherd and his flock. It was five days before Christmas...