Andes Mountain Crash
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Summary: Andes Crash Group Dynamics Graduate Term Report Submitted for HR 5083-220 In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement of Degree of Masters in Human Relations Abstract Alive is a story of how members of the Old Christians Rugby Club (a part of the Stella Maris Catholic College in Montevideo, Uruguay) and others survived for ten weeks from October to December 1972 on a particularly desolate part of the Andes mountain range. Traveling from Uruguay to Chile for a rugby match, their plane went down killing the crew and some passengers, stranding the remaining. Forty-five passengers started on the trip, only sixteen survive. How they survived and what occurred during that time frame are the discussion of this paper. The dynamics of the group that actually enabled them to survive that long with limited supplies and unbelievable probability of survival will also be summated. Alive is an unbelievable story of just how powerful group dynamics...

