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/ 18 November 2005

A trek against time

Stark choices face Sultan Rehman, a farmer stranded high in a valley devastated by the earthquake, and time is running out. One month ago the 7,6 magnitude earthquake violently upended his peaceful world in Sosal, a small hamlet perched on a mountain ledge about 130km north of Islamabad. His house was crushed, his brother was killed, and his family was left clinging to life in perilous conditions.