Final scramble

Our twelfth GPS location took us up a steep slope of sliding rocks. It wasn't tough but still we had to be careful. Slipping would be easy. In among the rubble, like someone had bombed a city, we found our final half can but without a new location. We figured it was the end of our hunt and called in. We did so with a radio transmitter - there's no mobile coverage out here - and were told to climb over the slope and begin our journey back. Our target had been three and a half hours for the whole hike and we might just make it.