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DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES :
COUNTRIES: NEPAL:
Nepal Earthquake: Why I Had to Return
to a Devastated Country in Crisis
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Nepal Earthquake: Why I Had to Return
to a Devastated Country in Crisis
Last month, days after our reporter left Nepal, where shed been reporting
from Mount Everest, a 7.8 earthquake rocked the country. Now she returns
to a land ill-prepared for such a natural disaster or for the full-blown
humanitarian crisis that has followed in its wake
The devastation in Nepals villages two weeks after the earthquake in
pictures
Nepal earthquake 2015
The Observer
Carole Cadwalladr
Sunday 10 May 2015 03.00 EDT
The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/10/
why-i-had-return-to-nepal-earthquake-2015
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/m2448hl
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There is nothing left of my house. Nothing! he says. His name is Navin and
its his first trip home in 22 months from the United Arab Emirates, where
he works as a waiter earning very small money. His wife, children,
parents, brothers and sisters are now all homeless.
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The scale of the devastation is almost beyond comprehension. The latest
figures are 3,000 dead (though this will rise its nearly 8,000 as I
write), hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed and a third of the
population directly affected. But on the drive from the airport, the only
thing much different from when I left Kathmandu less than a week before
the earthquake is the lack of traffic. But its a different story at the
Summit hotel, a low-rise, slightly old-fashioned affair set amid flowery
gardens.
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Since I left, it has become ground zero of the international aid community
and the car park is rammed with 4x4s, the restaurant heaving with people
in agency polo shirts MSF, WEP, UN and dozens of evacuated climbers and
trekkers camping out in orange expedition tents in the gardens. But
through the melee, I spot someone I know: Nick Talbot.
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Or at least I think its Nick. He looks completely different since I last
saw him, which was a fortnight before the earthquake at Everest base camp.
Then he was a slim six-footer who hoped to be the first person with cystic
fibrosis to climb Everest; now, hes about two stones lighter, a gaunt
figure moving stiffly. I spent more than two weeks trekking up the
mountain with him and a team of aspiring Everest climbers who had all
booked with a Sheffield-based operator, Jagged Globe. Its a month since I
wrote about them on these pages why they were there, what motivated them
for an article about the avalanche that killed 16 Sherpas last year and
the complicated ethics and problems of the Everest industry.
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The last time I saw them was over lunch in the camps dining tent. I took
photos of them all and went off to meet the base camp doctors in the
Himalayan Rescue Association tent. I watched the Sherpas hacking into a
massive boulder to make a platform for their Puja, a Buddhist ritual held
at the start of the season to bless the expedition and shot a little video
of another of the team members, a charismatic Google engineer called Dan
Fredinburg, showing me the inside of his tent. It was such an extreme,
hostile environment, base camp, the crack of avalanches going off every
couple of hours, the ground a glacier covered in massive, shifting
rocks. And maybe it was that, or the deaths last year, but when eventually
I said goodbye to them all, it felt a bit emotional. I hugged them and
told them to stay safe.
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They didnt. I spent the day of the quake realising that something terrible
had happened at base camp and waiting for the news. Eventually, I got it:
Dan was dead. Dan the extrovert, the storyteller, the centre of attention;
Dan who mysteriously brought my laptop back to life when it got soaked by
rain (by sticking it in a sack of rice for two days); Dan with the amazing
Go-Pro footage and the larger-than-life tale, who Id been sure would be
the one who got away.
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Two other climbers on the team were seriously injured and five of the
Sherpas. Another 18 on different teams would die. It was Everests
deadliest day and hard to take in and yet it paled in comparison with the
colossal death toll in the rest of the country, news of which was starting
to trickle in.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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