TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Alina DIESTE and VIDEO by Elisa COLELLA
Uruguayan journalist, author and screenwriter Pablo Vierci, poses for a picture at his house in Montevideo on November 15, 2023. Pablo Vierci will never forget when he heard the 16 names. They were alive two months after crashing on a plane in the Andes! Half a century later, a film about their incredible epic also honors the 29 who died. "The global story needed to be told", Vierci, associate producer of the film "Society of the Snow" and author of the book of the same name about the famous plane crash of a group of Uruguayans in the mountain range between Argentina and Chile in 1972, told AFP. (Photo by Eitan ABRAMOVICH / AFP)