"It's totally remarkable and possible, but most people would die," Cat Bigney, a survival expert and instructor at the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, told Business Insider.
Actor Enzo Vogrincic as Numa and the survivors around the crash site in Netflix's "Society of the Snow."
In actuality, the men would've probably had a lot more muscle on their body," Bigney, who also played rugby for over a decade, said.
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AdvertisementMelted snow, which the movie shows survivors collecting in leftover water bottles, would help, but it would still be ice-cold.
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