Narrator: Mitchell Zuckoff

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. 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.

But the pleasure tour became an unforgettable battle for survival when the
plane crashed. Miraculously, three passengers pulled through. Emotionally
devastated, badly injured, and vulnerableto the hidden dangers of the jungle,
the trio faced certain death unless they left the crash site. Caught between
maneating headhunters and enemy Japanese, the wounded passengers endured
a harrowing hike down the mountainside.a journey that would lead them straight
into a primitive tribe of superstitious natives who had never before seen
a white man.or woman.

Drawn from interviews, declassified U.S. 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.

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