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Students packed into Boylston Hall yesterday to hear the miraculous survival story of plane crash survivor Roberto Canessa, a Uruguyan rugby player who gained celebrity in 1972 after his team’s plane crashed into the Andes mountains...
...speech, sponsored by Fuerza Latina, Canessa discussed the experience of being stranded for 72 days in freezing cold temperatures and overcoming starvation and avalanches after the crash of the plane, which was carrying Canessa’s rugby team and their families and friends to Chile...
After showing a vivid video chronicling his experience, Canessa described his personal struggles while stranded in the Andes. With temperatures that reached negative 40 degrees Celsius, “the kind of coldness that hurts your bones,” Canessa said that he realized he could die at any moment...
...thought what I was seeing couldn’t be real,” Canessa said. “Even though it was snowing so peacefully, the environment was so hostile. We were...
...Though Canessa said that the survivors have received some sensationalist backlash for their cannibalism, he explained that it was a difficult yet but necessary part of surviving...