On The Mountain

Lane Hance was on his way home from a successful elk hunting trip with his hunting party when a severe thunderstorm appeared out of nowhere. Lightning struck the private jet causing instrument failure and when the pilot, a beautiful young lady by the name of Anna Baest, tried to turn back had no way of knowing that her plane was too low to clear the mountains until she felt the bottom of it connect with the snow and ice in a clearing, which meant that it was just high enough to keep it from flying directly to the side of the mountain. The co-pilot and the three other members of his hunting party were killed leaving just himself and the pilot, who suffered a broken leg, and a few cuts and bruises to survive in the mountain wilderness alone with no hope of being found or finding help. Everything he did was thought out carefully. His will to live was strong, and the fact that he had a ten-year-old daughter at home who loved and needed her father as much as he loved and needed her. The pilot, the beautiful woman that she was, hated men and trusted next to no one. It was going to be hard enough to survive himself, let alone keep her alive also. He had to do his best even though he just wanted to get himself home. Their experiences together drew them closer every day and more dependent on each other without either of them realizing it. Especially Anna, and when the time came for them to part, she did without understanding why she was feeling the way she did. They both fought their feelings as they came back together to help an old rancher who had unwittingly helped them survive coming down off of the mountain, and then later through some problems, or was the old man a lot wiser than themselves and able to bring them together in his own sly sort of way. Only time can tell a person how things might work out. Especially when it comes to one"s feelings and needs, and when they don"t understand them themselves.