Speaking of cannabalism, I am surprised nobody's brought up the immortal Alfred Packer.Don't forget the rugby team from South America (Uruguay? Bolivia?) that crashed in the Andes in the early '70s.
And, of course, the Donner Party.
Closer to home: In "A Fatal Shore", a pretty good book on the early colonization of Australia, there is an account
of some Irish convict deportees who try to escape by walking to China. They ended up eating
each other, as the mob would pounce upon the guy with the ax when he succumbed to sleep.
The best part is that the survivor is eventually caught and tries to escape again, but some idiot, knowning
what happened to the last bunch of buddies, goes with cannibal. I don't recall the actual outcome of that last foray.
Go figure. Sort of like continuing to vote democrat, I guess.
aha,cannabal the musical ,very funny and disgusting movie on the donner pass expedition.