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The survivors salvaged some food from the plane. But the few handfuls of chocolate bars, snacks, and bottles of wine did not provide sustenance for long, even with strict rationing.

A raging hunger soon seized everyone left alive on the mountain. They scoured the snowy slopes for plants but found none. There were no animal tracks or burrows. Their pangs grew so voracious that they scoured the fuselage again and again in search of even the tiniest edible morsels.

In their hunger the passengers tried to consume strips of leather torn from luggage, padding from the seats and pieces of clothing.

But eventually they had to accept the truth that there was only metal, plastic, ice, and rock.

Then they made the hardest choice imaginable. They decided to eat the flesh of those who had died. Most of these were classmates or friends, and the horror of what they were being forced to do only compounded the tragedy of their situation.