Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed somewhere deep in the Andes Many were dead or dying Those who remained were stranded on a lifeless glacier with no supplies and no means of summoning help Struggling to endure freezing temperatures, forced to eat human flesh to avoid starvation, Nando resolved that he must get home or die trying