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On 13 October 1972, a flight with 45 people on board took off from Uruguay. The passengers were a rugby team, mostly in their late teens and early twenties, on their way to play a match in Chile. But the plane never made it there, instead crash landing in The Andes mountains. Those who survived found themselves stranded in one of the most inaccessible and inhospitable places imaginable.What happened over the next 72 days is known as ‘The Miracle of the Andes’, and is one of the greatest survival stories of the last…

Clocking in at 145 minutes, Netflix’s Society of the Snow is, in a couple of ways, a little more than gross. It tells the story of a group of airline passengers who are down and out, also in more ways than one. It’s a tragic tale, and one that’s difficult to ignore: A downed plane, its inhabitants lost in the mountain wilderness for far too long. Tensions flare. Violence seems imminent. Really, the only thing that could make things worse would be the revelation that the whole thing actually happened. Anyway, funny story:…

Nervous flyers, look away now. The Spanish director JA Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom; The Impossible) brings his considerable skills as an action director to the much-filmed real-life story of the crash of Uruguayan air force flight 571 in the icy peaks of the Andes in 1972. The incident, and the subsequent 72-day ordeal of the survivors, who had to resort to cannibalism, has been the subject of numerous documentaries and movies (including Frank Marshall’s Alive). But for the visceral, teeth-rattling intensity of…

Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose to protect someone in the Arctic—like high BMI and faster metabolism—could become liabilities. Many of Ocobock’s study subjects have been overweight and obese with normal cholesterol and blood sugar. Being “fat but fit,” which has been beneficial in extreme cold, “could now also be falling apart because of climate change, and could be leading to worsening health,” she says. If people’s diets and activity…

Escape From Tarkov developer Battlestate Games has confirmed that snow, which was added as part of the game’s temporary Christmas event, could become a regular fixture in the hardcore shooter. Along with the return of Christmas trees and an in-raid Santa Claus that hands out gifts, Escape From Tarkov‘s December update also blanketed each of the game’s maps in snow. While the shift in weather was presumably designed as a seasonal event, Battlestate Games COO Nikita Buyanov has teased that players could be seeing it more…

It all comes down to how many augers and impellers the snow thrower has. A single stage has a single auger, while a two-stage has augers and an impeller, and a three-stage will feature augers and two impellers. The more impellers a model has, the more snow it can clear, and faster. A single-stage model may only be able to clear dry, powdery snow up to just 6 inches deep since its single auger acts like a scoop; picking up snow and throwing it through the chute and out of the way. It doesn't have a lot of power on its own,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe Andes disaster, or miracle depending on how full your glass is, needs little introduction. The 1972 calamity – in which a plane carrying 45 people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay, crashed in the South American wilderness – has been the subject of books, documentaries and multiple films, the most famous of which, Alive, starred Ethan Hawke in 1993. Now, it is getting…

A series of storms is expected to drop snow at the lowest elevations of the season in California this weekend but meteorologists say it won’t do much to boost the scanty snowpack in the Sierra Nevada.Storms have already soaked Southern California with rain that will give way to strong winds and much cooler temperatures heading into the weekend.While the recent storms brought record rainfall and strong surf to the coast in the last weeks of 2023, they brought below-average amounts of snow to the mountains, putting the…

Although recent storms have thrashed the California coastline and boosted reservoir levels, the downpours have so far failed to deposit significant snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which experts say is in the grips of a severe, early season “snow drought.”December’s powerful storms delivered super-sized waves and record-setting rainfall in California, but most of it fell in coastal areas, and almost none in the interior part of the state that is home to the Sierra, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UCLA. “In some…

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