Lost in the hill

A day to remember :: 20th Oct 2007 (saturday)

Received sms from a friend yesterday night asking to go for a jungle tracking... something like that and i agreed to join them. 7:30am, a call from her and said coming to my place. After some journey to pick up ppl and finally we reached our destination -> Setapak, Melawati hill at 9am with empty stomach.

Started to climb the hill at around 9:15am. All the way up with happy mode, took some nice photos, meeting some groups of ppl getting down the hill, with the information that we are impossible to get lost as it only have 1 path to get up and down. 4 of us took almost 2 hours to reach the top of the hill and started to find our way down. Standing at the 1st rope location, we know that from here... we will start to go down. Looked at our right and left, my friend started to say that he had no idea with this place but he will try to find the path.

First, he tried the left and found that it was a wrong path and so, we went for the right path, never really consider the path going up to the big rock. 1 of my friend tried the right path 1st and asked us to go down after some times and so, we tried our best to get down. This is the scary part, it was so slippery and we found nothing to hold. Wondering how he get down just now, but with his words that he remembered this path, we tried our best to go down.

Lower down our body, sit on the ground and started to move down. Opps! rather than trying to move, we slipped down. It was so close, and luckily i get to hold something when i slipped down, but 1 of my friend was slipped until she got a tree to stop her from slipped away. I never thought all this will happen to me, all the while we only saw this in movie. After stable ourself, again trying to go down until we reached a place that we thought impossible for 3 of us to get down. It was a 90 degrees slope. We stuck there and later decided to climb back to the big rock. Imagine how we came down and now we wanted to get up again. Most of the time, we had nothing to hold to help us up and my friend did slipped again. We felt so scary stuck at the slippery place, hearing the thunder and kept telling ourself that we must survive. My leg shake so seriously.

I believed that our mind is totally blank besides the willpower to survive. We used every part of our body to get up. Press our finger to the ground, grabbed the root, used our knee to stable...... finally, we succeed to go back to the big rock. All of us don't know how we did it but, it was scary. At this time, sj already called the emergency as it was going to rain and we stuck there for such a long time. Bomba, Police, everybody started to call him to ask for our location and condition. It was 1:30pm and we finally gather back with 4ppl, started to go back from the way we came.

The bomba, policeman and ambulance were waiting us down at the hill. We tried to walk faster and safe under the rain. Before we managed to get down, we meet the bomba man and others who came to find us and to help us. How relief we felt when we meet them and we were back to the land only at 2:45pm. After hearing from them, we realize that the slippery path is also a wrong path. Luckily we made our decision to climb up again, if not... i'm not sure where am i now.... Of cos, the next place we got to go is the Police station nearby.

After this incident, I'm glad that everybody is still here without bad injury and i believe that all of us will remember this forever. Hopefully not phobia forever...
有死里逃生的感觉， 大家也要好好珍惜生命，关心你身边的每个人！