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And at the beginning, when I realized it was what I was going to do, my mind and my conscience was OK. And at last, I was convinced that it was the only way to live. But it was impossible to get the proteins from there, so we start a mental process to convince our minds that was the only way. So maybe a week, we try to eat the leather shoes and the leather belts. We have just some chocolates and biscuits for 29 people, so we start getting very weak immediately. Fairly early on, you say that hearing your cousin Adolfo say out loud what many were thinking - that you were going to have to eat the bodies - gave you a kind of relief. And you didn't flinch from describing this in the book. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Of course, the aspect of the story that has gained the most notoriety was the decision you all made that in order to survive, you would have to start eating your dead friends.
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And that first night was really impossible to describe. We are surrounded with our friends, who died. And the snow was all over the kerosene of the engines of the plane. It was very difficult because the weather was very cold. And we have no warm clothes (ph), no water. As you can imagine, it has been the most awful, terrible days of my life. Can you talk a little bit about that? - those first few days. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Eduardo, the group of survivors quickly formed a community, sharing tasks, rotating sleeping positions so everyone would get a chance at a more comfortable spot in the wrecked plane. Eduardo Strauch joins me now from Montevideo in Uruguay. "Out Of The Silence: After The Crash" is a story of endurance and the spiritual awakening that came after 72 days trapped in the Andes. Twenty-nine people initially survived that crash, and their story of struggle in the mountains became the subject of books and movies, most famously "Alive." Among those survivors was a young architect named Eduardo Strauch, who held off writing about the tragedy until now.
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Onboard was an Uruguayan rugby team, along with friends and relatives. On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 went down in the Andes along the Argentine-Chilean border.