Working at edge of life, death
My dad always says life begins at the edge of your comfort zone. If this is true, that's where I am. Covering the landslide at Xinmo village in Sichuan province couldn't be further from my news beat of technology and military diplomacy.
On Saturday at around 5:40 am, 18 million cubic meters of rock, earth and water slid from the top of Fugui Mountain onto Xinmo below, burying 62 homes, killing 10 people and leaving more than 93 people missing as of Sunday afternoon.
This was my first time covering a severe natural disaster, and I didn't know what to expect. However, when our sport utility vehicle traversed the twisted, narrow mountain road, with a deep valley to our right and plenty of fallen boulders on the left, and I saw how the car in front of us almost slid off the side of a cliff, I knew it was real.
