A true-life adventure adapted from Piers Paul Read's bestseller, about a Uruguayan rugby team who survive a plane crash in the Andes Mountains in 1972.

The survivors sit patiently waiting to be saved, but rescue attempts are hampered by the fierce weather conditions, and the likelihood of finding anyone alive seems improbable.

For 10 weeks, the crash survivors struggle against impossible odds and freezing temperatures just to stay alive.

Many viewers will already know the true and disturbing lengths that these people went to just to stay alive, but let's just say Hannibal Lecter would have felt at home with their means of survival.

The location photography is impressive, the scenery is breath-taking, and the re-enactment of the air crash is terrifying.