Climbing in railay beach

Are you consurned about the climbing or the people who have been left with nothing, and narrowly excaped with there lives? The climbers are almost all who is left in the area, apart from the locals, and I must say they (the climbers)have been doing a lot to help out with the cleanup and rebuilding. Well done to everybody who helped with search and rescue or rebuilding, good one, I am sure it has helped.

Hi! I see that my question was selfish and I apologize! I am planing to go there in january and i think that people there won`t mind if a spend some money there and I won`t mind if my hands get dirty while helping them rebuild a house,... Of course they deserve all the help they can get!

I just returned from railey. As you can read, the waves weren't that big as in other parts of the shore. Anyway the people did a good job. two bars (freedom and tina) are already fixed and party goes on. You can get everything for food and drink and no deseases. Almost everything is cleaned up. So do nnot hesitate. Go there and help the people. Spend money as much as you can. They lost the all the tourists in the high season. The best support is to go there! Take care Urs

I also think, the best way to help the people is to go there. They need us, i know it sounds strange but they need the income. they don't have any backup-insurance... Although a lot of people tell me not to go. but why shouldn't i go there, i can help too...

I've been to Ton Sai since 1997. I know pretty much all of the thaïs there. If you had plan to go there, just go, the climbing is still fantastic, the food still very good, the locals still so nice and already two bars have been fixed and more to come. And don't forget that Thailand lives only with the tourists. So go there and enjoy the climbing.

I agree, there is no reason not to go. There was a climber who ran out towards the wave as it approched, to help a little boy you would have not got to safety if it was not for the unselfish act of a strainger. A true hero. Good one. The people who helped take care of Jane Bucannon also deserve a mention, well done, you did well.

Yes and many climbers helped to fixe the bars, restaurants. We love this place and we all care about it. Sorry who is Jane Bucannon? She was injuried during the Tsunami?

have any bungalows been harmed? exept the ones who are close to the beachfront? like andamans for example. or didn't the water came up that far...

No bungalows were touched at Ton Sai, because they are quite far from the beach. At Railay only the Dusit were in part destroyed and the swimming pools affected which I think it's good. Railay is not a place for climbers anymore since a couple of years now. Ton Sai is still the same, life is back to normal. Climbing is perfect no crowds.

Jane Buchanan was on a kayak when the wave came. She was a bit smashed up, and some climbers helped to carry her to safety. She was seperated from her husband, and I don't think she found him.

I don't know either what happened to Jane, who I think is the woman who was rescued from the water up to Tyrolean Wall and later transported by helicopter to Krabi. But, I do have some info about the badly hurt english girl who were outside Green Valley for a while. She got seperated from her boyfriend, sister and mom while kayaking. Her boyfriend were, after beeing rescued, a few hours at Andaman. It was a very touching moment when the two of them got reunited. I, among others, helped them get to Ao Nang and into an ambulance. After that I didn't know what happened to them. Until a few days ago. In Vietnam I ran into some people from Ton Sai who have kept contact with them. It turned out that the girl had surgery in Krabi and one more time in Bangkok. They haven't found her sister or mom. But she and her boyfriend are doing OK, being lucky having survived the tsunami. Tina (the nurse with the red pants)