I Had to Eat My Friends to Survive
Pedro Algorta was one of 16 passengers to survive an infamous plane crash in the Andes in 1972. For 70 days the group went to unimaginable lengths to stay alive.
Pedro Algorta was one of 16 passengers to survive an infamous plane crash in the Andes in 1972. Stranded in the snow-covered mountains for 70 days, the group went to unimaginable lengths to stay alive.
Drew Ackerman is a podcaster who specialises in sending people to sleep.
Kaori Suzuki leads a group of women measuring radiation in the Japanese city of Iwaki, near the Fukushima power plant which was damaged after the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
Marina Klesheva is a convicted criminal who after leaving prison has become a star of Russian theatre.
(Photo: Survivors of the Andes plane crash, 1972, with kind permission from Pedro Algorta)
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