2011-04-02 10:29 Over the past two days we risked passing through heavily irradiated ground, retracing our way along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway through the contaminated region of Gangca county, hoping to reach Hargai and find a rail line leading into Gansu. But by the time we reached the Qinghai Lake farm, my wife and both Blade and his wife had fallen ill at the same time, burning with high fevers. To make matters worse, Blade’s car finally ran out of engine oil and blew the block. Five people became two, and we were stranded on this dangerous scorched earth.
2011-04-02 10:30 Near the farm there is a fishing village once used by fishing crews. I came here as a child. We had no choice but to stay and nurse the sick. Judging from the angle at which the houses lean and the traces of cracks on the ground, the center of the great explosion must have been somewhere around twenty kilometers east of Gangca county. That also means that whatever route comes next, we will still have to pass through places even more dangerous than this one.