Lost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff5/29/2023 ![]() Army documents, personal photos and mementos, a survivor's diary, a rescuer's journal, and original film footage, Lost in Shangri-La recounts this incredible true-life adventure for the first time. Caught between man-eating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured a harrowing hike down the mountainside-a journey into the unknown that would lead them straight into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen a white man or woman.Ärawn from interviews, declassified U.S. Kenneth Decker, too, was severely burned and suffered a gaping head wound.Ä®motionally devastated, badly injured, and vulnerable to the hidden dangers of the jungle, the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. ![]() John McCollom, grieving the death of his twin brother also aboard the plane, masked his grief with stoicism. Margaret Hastings, barefoot and burned, had no choice but to wear her dead best friend's shoes. ![]() Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the plane crashed. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to be cannibals. On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over Shangri-La, a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. ![]()
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