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Safely home A WINTER ESCAPE TO days into their nine-day trek on the ground, keeping by EMMIE DOWLING Nepal still needs help DENMARK in Langtang National Park myself up, and Raoul was SEE INSIDE FOR DETAILS THEY were stranded for in Nepal’s north when an yelling for us to move THE royal baby may of Nepal for aid work. earthquake struck without because he saw the cliff have replaced the The event ($35) starts at days in the Himalayas warning on April 28. face coming down.” It was 6pm on Monday, May FindFind thethe FakeFake AdAd && winwin aa by last month’s Nepal “I asked Rin what time it 11.59am local time. earthquake in the 11. To book, call 0402 652 chancechance forfor aa feastfeast forfor two!two! earthquake, but now was because we were taking Boulders, some the size headlines, but the 888. Fremantle Sailing these three local teens turns carrying the tent,” of cars, crumbled down suffering continues. Club is also hosting a are safe at home in Poncin told the Herald. “It cliffs hundreds of metres Nepal-born Manoj fundraiser, on June 13, Fremantle. was heavy.” above the young men on Dhungana, now of Mosman and all donations will be Hutcheson chimed in: the trail between Langtang Park, is donating all used to buy tents, drinking IndianIndian RestaurantRestaurant Jalada Wilson, 18, and “But I didn’t even have time Valley and the village of water, blankets, portable his two 19-year-old friends, proceeds from a dinner at SeeSee thethe competitionscompetitions to answer him. The next Syabrubesi. Eat Greek Restaurant to toilets and first aid kits for pagepage forfor details.details. Raoul Poncin and Rin thing I knew I had my hand • continued page 2 displaced Nepalese people. Hutcheson, were seven the organisation Friends 2014 HIA WINNER: KITCHEN DESIGN OF THE YEAR Western Cabinets have one of the most creative and experienced team of designers & manufacturers in Australia. 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Passports were tucked into pants UPCOMING WORKS FOR SHORELINE AT NORTH COOGEE and folded sleeping bags served as makeshift helmets while they sought • Ida Chamidah flew to Nepal to find refuge. her son, Jalada. Photo supplied The trio travelled for two hours, rice, dahl and potato with the teens passing at least four small villages LAUNCH OF SHORELINE until Wilson’s mum, Ida Chamidah, Shoreline Stage 1. and crossing a cracked-cement helped organise their rescue. Artist impression for illustrative purposes only. Last week, Hon Terry Redman, Minister for bridge before reaching Syabrubesi, Unable to confirm the trio’s Regional Development; Lands, launched where they spent six days in a shelter status in the days after the quake, with more than 100 other tourists. Chamidah flew to the country’s Shoreline, the first precinct of the 106 hectare “We thought we’d be safe once Cockburn Coast Redevelopment Area. With quake-shattered capital, Kathmandu, we reached a village, but that was to find them herself. an urban feel and coastal style, Shoreline will mostly false hope,” Hutcheson, of She made her way to north feature a vibrant experience for all who live South Fremantle, said. Kalikasthan in a hired 4WD in, work at and visit the area. “When we got to some villages before hiking for six hours on the and all we saw were tin roofs treacherous, foggy journey to the Shoreline’s main street will link to a beach smashed in and chickens and remote village of Dhunche with a plaza, the precinct will feature a public donkeys running around.” climbing buddy. square, 3.5 hectares of landscaped parks, “Luck was on our side to the After all that the exhausted max,” Wilson added. “There was a sports playing field, land for a future primary 38-year-old mother-of-three was still landslide like 30 or 40 metres in front a four-hour walk from the teens, school and a multi-purpose community • New public landscaped areas will be of us and we just thought, ‘shit’. building. In addition, a tempting array of created including pathways, gardens, whom she’d managed to locate and “We could have been there if talk to. restaurants and cafés will sit alongside shops, public art and spaces for future kiosks Raoul hadn’t wanted to stop to “I was in Dhunche the second office space and entertainment facilities. and services; and buy a Red Bull and Snickers in one time I spoke to my son in Nepal,”she of the towns (shortly before the said. • Upgrade of a 300 metre section of earthquake). UPCOMING WORKS STAGE Cockburn Road between Rollinson Road “He said, ‘mum, you’re a fucking “In the last town before crazy woman’. He didn’t want me to Stage 1 works have commenced and are and McTaggart Road, creating a new Syabrubesi, a little dog came with walk any further because people had expected to be completed in 12 months. intersection into the estate. us and that was just the best. We just already died in that area.” felt so comfortable with him.” These include: All works on Cockburn Road will be in line Chamidah expressed frustration Hutcheson said: “At one stage, with the Australian Embassy, saying • New subdivision infrastructure with an approved traffic management plan the dog just stopped and looked it didn’t offer enough assistance. A including installation of sewer lines, to minimise inconvenience to commuters. up to the mountains with his ears helicopter crew reunited the young water connections, drainage, power, and Road users will be informed in advance of pricked up. He was like a human, men with Chamidah in Dhunche. thinking. communications, lighting and local roads; any changes to road conditions. “They stunk and were so dirty “He started running and we ran when I saw them,” she said. “They with him. Good thing too because hadn’t showered in 16 days.” we looked back about five minutes AT A GLANCE Chamidah and her son broke later and there was a landslide where down in tears, embracing, on Friday we had just been. May 1. SIZE EVOLUTION “He didn’t really have a name.” On the journey home, the ¢£ HECTARES ¤¥ YEARS “Just ‘old mate’,” the friends friends—who’d met through laughed in unison. skating—passed the time by singing COMMERCIAL AND RETAIL SPACE APARTMENTS AND TOWNHOUSES At the Syabrubesi camp, Nepalese songs and sharing stories from their ¤¥,¦¥¥ SQUARE METRES ª,«¥¥ locals shared their limited supplies of eventful first international holiday. With her son safely in tow, EMPLOYMENT RESIDENTS Chamidah was able to turn her £¦¥ JOBS «,¥¥¥ thoughts to the people of Nepal. ‘We could “Locals (in Syabrubesi) were getting angry and throwing rocks at have been helicopters because they were flying For further information, visit landcorp.com.au/shoreline in with no supplies and just taking off with tourists,” she recalled. [caught by the “The boys would share some food FREMANTLE ( 9 mins) and the villagers would watch and landslide] if count how many times they ate. SHORELINE BEACH FRONT URBAN PLAZA “Locals started to say, ‘you eat too much’, when they only ate twice that FUTURE MAIN STREET LOCAL CENTRE Raoul hadn’t day.” Babu, a Nepalese native whose PORT COOGEE (8 mins) wanted to teahouse was decimated by the earthquake, emptied his food stocks PERTH CBD (28 mins) to feed tourists.