The Andes flight disaster—or the Miracle of the Andes—might be one of history's most harrowing survival stories.

On Friday October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane chartered by an amateur rugby team crashed in the Andes mountains en route to Santiago, Chile, for a match. On December 21, two emaciated ...

Roberto Canessa survived a plane crash in the Andes and 72 days battling extreme weather, hunger and the fear of dying while stranded in a frozen mountain range. Now, the 67-year-old cardiologist has ...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Surviving members of an Uruguayan rugby team have played a match postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days in the cordillera ...

Everyone has some sort of mountain to climb in life. But the peaks scaled by Uruguayan Roberto Canessa will surely take some beating. He was one of 16 survivors of a 1972 Andean plane crash which ...