Andes Plane Crash Survivor Roberto Canessa Reflects on His Harrowing Story | Good Morning Britain
After the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains in 1972, Roberto Canessa, a 19-year-old medical student, faced a harrowing ordeal. Stranded at a height of 11,710 feet with limited supplies, Roberto and his rugby teammates who were with him, confronted the unthinkable decision - resorting to cannibalism to survive. Over 72 days, they battled extreme conditions, an avalanche, and embarked on a perilous trek for help. The story was depicted in the 1993 film “Alive” and now it’s told again in the Netflix film "Society of the Snow” which captures the survivors' agonising experience and the ethical dilemmas they faced during their fight for survival. Roberto joins GMB today to open up on his harrowing story and fight for survival and reflect on the tragedy 50 years on.
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Everyone asks the survivors about eating their friends and family members. He must get sick of it, they all must - there is so much more to the story than that - there are far more interesting questions. Society of Snow is an incredible and sensitive film.
Yeah it is shame. It is a story about human spirit more than anything else.
@@cobrakaier238 : I agree.
Couldn’t agree more
Hardly
Absolutely, agree 100%
Glad he talked about another experience of the avalanche when he asked about eating people. Interviewer STILL went back to the topic eating the people. So much more interesting things that could have been asked.
Nope
Yup.
If I was killed in a plane crash - and my remains frozen - I would actually be kinda embarrassed if my surviving friends chose to die before they'd eat me. One a serious note this really is an epic tale of human's overcoming extraordinary odds to survive, doing whatever they had to do to survive, etc. I'm a practical person - the fact that they ate human flesh to survive, to me, wasn't mind blowing. I'm just glad that some of them survived...and look at the wonderful contributions this man had made to society. These guys went through a lot and the eating of human flesh, for me, is hardly the biggest story in this thing. Everybody focuses on that aspect - it's about the miracle of their survival, generally.
Exact. Cheerings from Uruguay.
They keep asking the same you eat people, meat is meat you eat or you die, I think he was clear about it. Once you in the survival mode who knows what are you going to do?! He survived made tough decisions good for him. 💪
You know that moment when you hear a song, a story or watch a movie with the right message at the right time? = me right now. And I love Roberto’s positivity and bright energy.
It was incredible how resilient and brave they were.
STOP WASTING THESE INTERVIEWS ASKING ABOUT EATING THE BODIES
very unprofessional behavior by the journalists to keep asking him about eating his friends when he was clearly uncomfortable and kept trying to change the subject
They were very brave and remarkable young men who worked together to survive. I can't imagine, after everything they had already been through, surviving an avalanche and losing even more friends, and still having the courage that Nando and Roberto had to hike 10 days for help. It is a fascinating look at team work, strong will and desire to live.
"You learn in life when you want something you must just face where you are going and don't think success and failure, and begin walking and every step is a step ... ". - Dr. Canessa (pediatric cardiologist) "Just aim where you are going to go."
Doc Canessa. Forever a remarkable man and a personal hero of mine.❤
It's called Survival; why do you have to keep saying about what they had to eat..
Every interview focuses on the same subject matter, and it's asked in a way that makes them look and possibly feel horrible. Please stop. I'm vegan, and the fact they had to eat bodies didn't phase me, nor was it controversial at all. That's what a true survival / life or death situation looks like. A experience most of us are fortunate to never have to experience. This doesn't mean we try to normalize / understand it in any "ordinary context". None of us have the optics to comprehend it. We all live 15 mins from a grocery store with 300+ ingredients. They ate out of necessity / survival, not for sensory pleasure / gluttony -- like a certain former host of Good Morning Britain. I watched a bunch of interviews and they always bring this up like it's the most horrifying or barbaric thing. It's also not cannibalism, but necrophagy in the context of do or die. I watched the original movie when I was 6, and never forgot it because it had such an impact on me. The remake however is a masterpiece. Focus on the broader meaning, friendship, purpose, meaning, existentialism, is there a God, mortality.
If it hadnt have been a team of young, physically fit and strong Rugby players I doubt anybody wouldve survived. He saved them all
Not all of them were rugby players, in fact just 19 of 45 passengers. Best wishes from Uruguay
@eduardocuna8170 I checked and 6 of the 16 survivors were rugby players. But crucially the 2 who made the trip at the end to save the rest were both rugby players
@@smc2069 I agree with you. Parrado and Canessa were the strongest members of the team.
There was a woman who went to the airport just to find a flight to Chile to visit her son. She bought a ticket because it was cheap, unfortunately she was badly injured and died during the first night.
@@eduardocuna8170 her name was Senora Mariani and she was going to Chile for her daughter's wedding
He’s not just a survivor, he’s a living Hero, doing everything he could to save and rescue his friends. Eating dead bodies to survive that’s basic, gotta choose to live or die, I would rather consume them than die.😬
Incredible man what they went through we can’t even imagine
Not even close
I definitely appreciate the warmth of my bed a little more
What a wonderful man.. ☮️❤️🌺
What a great man. What a incredible story. I want to read his book 🙏
They didn’t leave from Santiago, they were going to Santiago- they left from Mendoza, Argentina.
I have all my admiration for Roberto for his wisdom at such an early age, even to these days. But these mediocre interviews focused on anthropophagy instead of more in- depth questions about such a horrific experience, which is really annoying. Don't you have more interesting questions to ask? And look at her judgmental look when Roberto kindly responds, it's so annoying. Moreover, knowing that any of us would have done the SAME in that situation, that's why it's a trivial matter! Come on! I'm from Santiago, Chile, I was 3 years old when it happened, and I grew up listening to the same question over and over again. But people, that was 50 years ago! Can't you evolve?
Great story. I loved the new film about it. 🇺🇾
They did not started their flight in Santiago,rather in Uruguay, then Mendoza, Argentina., then they crashed .
I would like to know how they overcame the PTSD??
Same
They stuck together when they came home and spoke about it as a Team like they were on the mountain. Nando and I believe Roberto actually got Carlitos to rehab for his drug and alcohol addiction many years after the crash. They are still a strong tight unit there for each othher
I think Roy actually asked Nando years after why he had such severe scars on the back of his legs, he was wearing shorts. And Nando said I got them walking out, to which Roy understood the harsh trek he and Roberto had to endure
Qué pésimos periodistas, dan vergüenza ajena, desperdiciando la entrevista.
@gabricia I feel it was a respectable piece.🙂
One question i would like to ask the survivors is whether they still blame the pilots for what happened and whether they have ever spoken to the pilots families about what happened
it was pilot error, why fly so close to the mountains?
It seems like the interviewers really didn’t do their research on them, didn’t watch any interviews, didn’t read their book. In the press conference they gave, they explain that their deeds are comparable to Jesus giving his blood and flesh, and that these acts should not be interpreted in any other way out of context or misunderstood. That we must remember that those who died were incredible young boys, and their memory should be handled as such. 🙏🏻 I find that the interviewers completely lack tact and completely miss the point; they have no respect.
People can judge all they want and call these guys cannibals but they did what they had to do to survive. If I was there and dying I would want my friends to feast on my body.
Oh come on Ben ask the Million $ question Did it taste like chicken?
It tastes more like pork.
@@An-Alien-On-Earth with some fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti?
@@SimonSmith-yd6tt exactly lol
I think it would be like pork. I believe this because my daughter had palate surgery and her replacement parts were from a pig. We have quite a few interchangeable parts with them.