What bodies did the ‘Snow Society’ survivors eat to stay alive?

Air tragedy Friday, October 13, 1972the day in which Chilean team rugby crashed in the Andesit didn’t end with the crash of his craft.

While waiting to be rescued, Those who survived the impact had to find a way to continue feeding themselves. Although they had some on board edible suppliessuch as chocolate, wine and jam, nuts and crackersafter they finished, the group had to to face an ethical, religious debate, but a life or death debate.

The the bodies of the other dead passengers They continued close to them.

The suggestion came from the doctor Roberto Canessa: feeding on that human flesh (anthropophagy).

Although in the beginning The reaction of the majority of the group was resistance, little by little They gave way in their position in order to stay alive.

Inspired the book of the same name by the Uruguayan journalist and writer Pablo Vierci, Spanish tape I Bayona shows this difficult decision that was just the survivors discovered after their rescue, which took place two months after the accident, in December of the same year.

But is it known Who did the bodies belong to? what did you eat

Uruguayan Pancho Delgado was in charge of revealing to the world what had happened at the press conference held at the Stella Maris-Christian Brothers school in Montevideo (Uruguay) and clarify the rumors that were already spreading in the media at that time.

According to Vierci’s book: “Rumors began to circulate that we fed on the bodies of the dead, was filtered by the photos they took helicopter crews themselves, those that made it into the newspapers“.

However, The identity of the bodies that were consumed remains one of the best kept secrets groups.

Only those in charge of removing corpsesamong them Roberto Canessa, They were aware of that detail and they avoided telling others.

They respected the bodies of cousin Nanda Parrad and that from Liliana Methol.

“For us, giving That jump was a definite break, and the consequences were irreversible.We were never the same again, Canessa said in a book he published in 2016.