WHAT IT’S LIKE TO… SURVIVE A PLANE CRASH
NEARLY 50 years have passed since the world abandoned Gustavo Zerbino and his Old Christians team-mates in the Valley of Tears, 12,000ft up in the Andes. The team had been travelling from Montevideo in Uruguay to Santiago de Chile to face Old Grangonians (Old Boys). After a grave navigational error, the pilots began their descent over what they believed to be Chile’s Central Valley. They were, in fact, descending into the Andes mountain range.
It was 72 days after the plane crash that they were rescued; two players had trekked for days to find
