TEC national fellow Dr. Ulyana Horodyskyj traveled with Alpine Expeditions (Ricardo Peña) in January 2018 to the crash site of Uruguayan Air Force flight 571. The Fairchild 227 went down in the Andes on Friday, October 13, 1972 due to pilot error. 45 people were onboard the plane and only 16 survived. The survivors lived for 72 days on the Lagrimas glacier at nearly 12,000 ft., eating human flesh in order to survive. Rescue helicopters arrived on December 22, given a successful 10-day trek out of the crash site by survivors Nando Parrado and Roberto Canessa. Ulyana had the pleasure of meeting one of the survivors, Eduardo Strauch, on the expedition and spent time exploring the wreckage melting out of the glacier due to climate change.