"On October 12th 1972 a Fairchild F-227 plane, charted by an amateur rugby team, left Uruguay for Santiago in Chile. Shortly before Christmas, two emaciated young men staggered down from a high plateau in the Andes to announce that they were survivors of a plane which had crashed seventy days before." (Sunday Times, Jan 1973)
shunt
puts the scrum on the grill to reconsider the etiquette of survival and the awkward implications of cannabalism in polite society.
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