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- The Incident -
"Twenty-five went hill trekking, nine lost", "Hikers lost during hill trek", "SMS to dad saves 9 lost on mountain", "9 hikers found after lost in jungle for 9 hours".....etc

These are the headlines showing up on different local newspapers today. Some even taken up half of the page to report it alongside with nice photos. However, we found most of the reports on the incident were not accurate. Some claimed that the twenty-five hikers aged between 20-25. Some said they are all working in Motorola and worse, said the hikers lost in jungle for 9 hours ! Thus, we felt that we shall let our friends knew what had actually happened up there and why the nine people who were with us would eventually "lost".

- The Meet Up -
It was around 7pm when the last group met with the Motorolans at waterfall. The place was getting darker and darker. The last group which including Chun and friends led the way from the waterfall and the Motorolans followed behind. They're going down fast, trying to beat the time and reached the dam before the sky was all dark....

- The Break Up -
As night took over completely, Chun and friends reached the dam. They realised the Motorolans were not with them already. Nobody remembered when and how did they broke up, tiredness and home were the only thing in their mind. They did their best by waited for few minutes, sadly they were nowhere to be seen. Chun and team decide to move on.

- The Missing Motorolans -
The Motorolans were still at the camp site, in front of the river and not sure which way to go. They couldn't catch up with Chun's gang. They too waited there for some time, hoping the other team would be back to look for them, but it didn't happen....In this critical moment, they asked for help from the campers and the campers were kind enough to bring them. At the same time, an sms which played an important role in the whole incident, sent out to the girl's father, written "We are still finding our way out". It was around 8pm.

- "They're confirmed lost !" -
9:30pm, second team (Cheanny, Yanny and friends) finally arrived at base. Chean first called up to Chun's gang, and confirmed that they were coming down safely. Around 10:30pm, cars engine brought the exhausted Cheanny and Yanny out of dream. A man with worriment all over his face came out from the car, he is father of one of the Motorolan, asking us about her daughter's situation. He told us she was "lost". Within half an hour, the pondok already flooded with people, including people from the rescuer team. We were in shock and felt it was a little exaggerated. The worried father showed us an sms written "We are still finding our way out", sent by her daughter. Immediately Cheanny called up Chun's gang, and confirmed that the Motorolans were not coming down with them. Chean then tried to call the Motorolans, but just couldn't get through any of them. The father told the rescuer, "They're confirmed lost!"

11:30pm, Chun's gang finally reached base. We said adieu to the worried families there and headed home.

- The Rescue -
The Motorolans were on the right path, walking down step by step extremely slow as one of the girl's knee hurting badly. They reckoned at least another hour to reach the base. Somehow a phone call managed to sneak in through the weak signal, it was the girl's dad ! They realised that the rescuers were already on their way up to look for them. They've been told to stay at where they were. An hour passed, they finally heard the Jeep's engine not far in front.

It was almost 3am when the two Jeeps back to base. Reporters from different papers already standby there. The Motorolans finally came out from the jungle safely.

The rest, is history.....

p/s: The victims name and photo are blurred out to protect their privacy.

Related links
1. Gunung Nuang - Conquered!
2. Conquering Gunung Nuang - The whole story