Mangino Schmid, one of the 16 survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash, passed away in Montevideo just one day before his 71st ...

another survivor of the tragedy that eventually became a Hollywood movie. The Uruguayan Air Force Fairchild F-227 turboprop carrying the Old Christians rugby team and some of its supporters ...

often focusing on how the survivors eventually turn on one another. But "Society of the Snow" looks at how a Uruguayan rugby team "managed to survive 72 days in one of the world's harshest ...

Many know me as one of the 16 survivors of the tragedy of the ... including 19 members of the Uruguayan rugby team Old Christians Club, along with their families and friends.

In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game ... Two months after the crash, the 16 survivors are finally rescued. Along the days, the starved survivors decide to eat ...