LONG-DISTANCE AID: Members of the National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team load a military cargo plane bound for Ya'an City at an airport in Beijing on April 21 (YU HONGCHUN)

MOVING A MOUNTAIN: Rescuers attempt to clear landslide debris blocking a major road to quake-affected areas on April 22 (SHI GANG)

RUNNING TO AID: An emergency response team runs to a site in earthquake-devastated Baoxing County on April 21. Landslides blocked the road 2 km from their destination (TAO KE)

TIMELY AID: Rescuers pull a bedridden man in his 80s from his ruined home in Qingren Township, Lushan County, on April 20 (LE XIAOXUAN)

IN SAFE HANDS: Medical workers transfer 12-year-old Gao Shiqin to an intensive care unit on April 21. Gao underwent life-saving chest drainage surgery at the field clinic (SUN CHAO)