Emergency relief is finally flooding into quake-stricken Pakistan. But nothing has reached Keri, a highland hamlet of crushed houses that feels forgotten to the world.
Giant landslides block the winding road to Mansehra, 72km (45 miles) away. Not a single aid worker or soldier has broken through the wall of rock. So the villagers drink river water, sleep outdoors and pray that help will arrive.
True, a helicopter landed two days ago. It stayed on the ground for 30 minutes, long enough to evacuate the most seriously wounded. But even that was too late for Ghulsham Bibi.
For four days she nursed her 11-year-old son Baset Ali, his head bleeding profusely since a rock struck him during Saturday's quake.
Battling the odds, Ghulsham did her best to save him. She bandaged his wounds with her husband's shirts but it continued to bleed.
She fed him milk but he vomited it. She listened to his howls of pain when he cried her name at night. And yesterday the heartbroken woman wept as she described how she watched him die, a day before the helicopter arrived.
"It broke my heart," she said, wiping her eyes with a dirty shawl. "Now the helicopters can come, the roads can open, but still my son has gone."
After a sluggish start aid is reaching the centres of Pakistan's earthquake zone. International aid workers and trucks laden with food, medicines and tents are getting to the Kashmiri capital Muzaffarabad and the decimated town of Balakot.
But smaller mountain villages such as Keri - trapped behind a chain of landslides - have been left to fend for themselves.
The villagers of Keri, a village of 1,500 inhabitants overlooking a picturesque valley, are not out of danger yet.
Every family is sleeping under rough tin shelters or plastic sheets and winter is around the corner. At 1,500m (5,000ft) the Himalaya foothills are bitterly cold and the first snows usually arrive by December.
"If we don't get supplies of tents urgently, soon the whole village will be freezing to death," said headmaster Sajjid Hussain.
And as darkness fell last night a succession of fresh tremors struck the village, triggering a deep rumbling sound and alarming vibrations underfoot.
"Rebuild?" said Mr Hussain. "First we must make sure our village is not going to fall down again."