The earthquake of 8th October 2005 in Northern Pakistan was a movement of the earth’s tectonic plates so devastatingly cataclysmic that entire mountain sides crashed to the floors of valleys, giant fissures opened to swallow and entomb farmers and their flocks, a generation of children was crushed to death under the roofs of their ill-constructed schools, entire villages and towns crumbled to rubble and a myriad souls perished in the debris. This book recounts the efforts made to help the victims in the aftermath of the tragedy, providing a unique window on the courage of those afflicted people whose lives could never again be the same.