Surviving the Seismic Shift (7 of 9)
Series: Kept
Brad Whitt
Jude 16-21
ILLUS: Do you remember where you were on April 25, just a number of weeks ago? Chances are your day was nothing like three of our fellow Americans had that day, and the 5 days that followed.
They said that they heard the earthquake before they felt or saw anything.
''The rocks sounded like cannon-fire,'' one of them recalled.
The violent shaking loosened a shower of rock that cascaded where it did not belong, into the roof of the teahouse near where Della Hoffman and Eric Jean (31 and 32 years old) sat in the village of Bamboo, an alpine valley framed in between a mountain and river.
Watching the other villagers tip their tables toward the incoming rocks, Eric hesitated and then crawled beneath a table with Della, his warm teacup still in hand.
Corey Ascolami (34) got up and pressed the record button on his GoPro camera and stood frozen - watching the rocky torrent collapse into the valley floor.
When the rocks finally came to a rest, the valley was choked with plumes of dust and sharp-edged shards of rock blocked the trails - both upstream and downstream.
Just a few moments after noon on April 25 of this year these three Americans found themselves caught in Nepal's Himalayan expanse, stranded with no way out.
Looking to local authorities for guidance, they moved up the riverbed to a nearby flat. The power grid and cellular grid were down, so they had no way to call out and no way to know about the 3,200 who were killed by the earthquake on Sunday. (A number that climbed to 5,800 by the time the aftershocks ceased on Friday morning.)
They organized themselves into small teams to collect and boil water, but they lacked food and basic supplies. One of the survivors had a satellite phone, so they each took turns typing email messages one at a time to Della's mother. It was comforting to know someone knew where they were. But a rescue was not imminent by any ...
Series: Kept
Brad Whitt
Jude 16-21
ILLUS: Do you remember where you were on April 25, just a number of weeks ago? Chances are your day was nothing like three of our fellow Americans had that day, and the 5 days that followed.
They said that they heard the earthquake before they felt or saw anything.
''The rocks sounded like cannon-fire,'' one of them recalled.
The violent shaking loosened a shower of rock that cascaded where it did not belong, into the roof of the teahouse near where Della Hoffman and Eric Jean (31 and 32 years old) sat in the village of Bamboo, an alpine valley framed in between a mountain and river.
Watching the other villagers tip their tables toward the incoming rocks, Eric hesitated and then crawled beneath a table with Della, his warm teacup still in hand.
Corey Ascolami (34) got up and pressed the record button on his GoPro camera and stood frozen - watching the rocky torrent collapse into the valley floor.
When the rocks finally came to a rest, the valley was choked with plumes of dust and sharp-edged shards of rock blocked the trails - both upstream and downstream.
Just a few moments after noon on April 25 of this year these three Americans found themselves caught in Nepal's Himalayan expanse, stranded with no way out.
Looking to local authorities for guidance, they moved up the riverbed to a nearby flat. The power grid and cellular grid were down, so they had no way to call out and no way to know about the 3,200 who were killed by the earthquake on Sunday. (A number that climbed to 5,800 by the time the aftershocks ceased on Friday morning.)
They organized themselves into small teams to collect and boil water, but they lacked food and basic supplies. One of the survivors had a satellite phone, so they each took turns typing email messages one at a time to Della's mother. It was comforting to know someone knew where they were. But a rescue was not imminent by any ...
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