I did the same on the third day, and when I finally nibbled the peanut down to nothing, there was no food left at all.” One morning, Parrado later wrote, he found himself cradling a single chocolate-covered peanut: “On the first day, I slowly sucked the chocolate off the peanut … On the second day … I sucked gently on the peanut for hours, allowing myself only a tiny nibble now and then. But their rations were woefully inadequate. They used aluminum from the seat backs to warm up snow and provide a steady stream of drinking water. They piled up airplane seats to create shelter in the broken fuselage, where they huddled day and night. Those with the strength and awareness to do so immediately began tending to the more seriously wounded. Those left alive, after many days without food, survived by resorting to cannibalism. Survivors from the Andes Flight Disaster waiting to be rescued. The harrowing experience became known as the “Miracle of the Andes.” Starvation Drives Survivors to Resort to Cannibalism It later emerged that those who survived had done so in part by eating their fallen dead comrades, and reaction was initially one of revulsion, but that soon gave way to an appreciation of the fortitude and inventiveness that enabled them to beat seemingly impossible odds. By the time their ordeal ended, an almost unfathomable 72 days after it began, the total number of survivors had dwindled to 16. There were now 29 survivors, alone in the bitter cold of the Andes, with no way of contacting the outside world and their plane’s white fuselage all but invisible in the snow to any would-be rescuers that passed overhead. Seven of those on board had been sucked out of the fuselage before the plane had crashed four more, including the pilot and Parrado’s mother, were killed upon impact and by the time Parrado regained consciousness, a further five had also perished-including the co-pilot and Parrado’s friend Abal. A dead body from the Andes Flight Disaster lies near the wreckage.

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