The message of Andes plane crash retelling Society of the Snow for one who survived it by eating human flesh: ‘We all have our own personal mountain range’
- Everyone has a mountain to climb, says Roberto Canessa, 70, who as a teenager survived the infamous Andes plane crash, and ‘We must tell them to keep going’
- Canessa says Netflix’s Society of the Snow about how he and others ate the flesh of those killed in the 1972 crash is a ‘super-light version’ of what happened
Roberto Canessa has spent most of his life recounting the astonishing tale of how he survived a plane crash, two avalanches and a diet of human flesh before trekking across freezing mountains to save himself and his friends.
Now the infamous tragedy – or miracle – in the Andes that hit Canessa, just 19 at the time, and the other members of his Uruguayan rugby team is the subject of a major new Netflix film, which comes out on January 4 and is expected to be an award contender, including at the Oscars.
And Canessa, 70, is only too happy to see it told again, convinced that his survival story still contains important messages for future generations.
“We all have our own personal mountain range,” Canessa says. “And there are many people who are climbing the mountain right now. We must tell them not to be discouraged, to keep going.”
