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World Service,30 Jun 2006,25 mins

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Nando Parrado, describes his ordeal when a plane carrying him, members of his family and a Uruguayan rugby team, crashed in the Andes. He and other survivors were forced to eat those who had been killed and endure extreme conditions before he climbed out of the mountains to find help.

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