- Mountains Of The Himalayas

Coming down at a high rate of acceleration, falling to an altitude of about 28,000ft was when Lara made her move. She pulled the flapping tab to her right and had successfully deployed her parachute. As expected she began to glide down, however a gust of turbulent wind suddenly blew Lara off course from where she was targeting to land.

'Oh blast!' Lara cursed, as she drifted further across the mountainside. There was nothing she could do, other than guide the parachute close to where her original target was supposed to be. Since Ayesha did her H.A.L.O jump before Lara, she managed to miss the turbulent air that had affected her partner, and she had now landed where she originally planned to.

As soon as Ayesha landed, she immediately took off the parachuting equipment and set about deciding where she would start with her trek. Even though visibility was poor, Ayesha saw a glimpse of Lara veering off in the wrong direction...in response to this all she could do was a face-palm.

'Oh Lara, something always happens with you, it is never simple!' Ayesha shook her head, she then proceeded to grab her GPS tracker to find out where she was.

'Ah ha, a good spot to go for a little wander.' She thought to herself, as on the virtual map display it had shown she certainly was in a good position.

...At last with knees and hands deep within the snow, Lara had finally landed. After detaching the parachute from her person, she got out her radio to contact Ayesha.

"Ayesha, can you hear me?"

"Yes, loud and clear."

"Great, sorry about my late radio call...I took a little detour to take in the view!"

"Ha! You're a bad liar Lara, I saw you struggling against the gust of wind earlier!"

"Oh you did...you weren't meant to see that!"

"Haha and not only that but I've got it all on camera!"

"You haven't have you!?"

"Nope, don't worry your integrity is safe!"

"Hehe good, you nearly had me there!"

"Well to give you an update, I'm searching around the area where I've landed, so I'll let you know if I find anything, you?"

"I'm a bit far off where I'm meant to be, so I'll try getting there first...It will be quite a hike from what I can see."

"Hmmm okay, just be careful Lara, let me know if anything happens on your end."

"Will do Ayesha, same to you as well. Over and out."

Lara retracted her radio to her waist holder, then went onto contemplating on how she was going to get back on track. 'Twas about forty minutes in the journey, and already the brutal cold was getting to the duo. Also the repetitiveness of seeing just cloud, rock and snow was tiresome too. Nevertheless they carried on searching to see whether or not they could find any clues leading to discovering the truth and meaning of V.K.T. …That's if it had existed at all. So far it all seemed like a wasted trip.

"Whoa!" Lara exclaimed loudly, she had stopped altogether due to the dead-end in front of her, stopping any progress forward. Looking around to no alternative path, Lara thought for a moment and made up her mind.

'Looks like there's only one way to do this.' Lara equipped her two ice axes, took a few breaths and braced herself for the mountain climbing.

'One...Two...Three.' Lara repeated those numbers as she slammed each axe into the rocky mountainside. The climb was daunting and of course stressful, one wrong move and it could all be over. But Lara is not one to give up so easily, she strove upward making every painful second count.

'Phew! Made it!' A relieved Lara cheered to herself after making her way up top.

"Lara, are you receiving?" The sound of Ayesha's voice instantly surprised her.

"Yeah, go ahead."

"What is your status?"

"I've just climbed part of a mountain and now on topside, where are you?"

"Still on the otherside, you're probably higher than me now. I've checked around my area and there is nothing to report."

"Oh..Okay."

"Disappointing I know."

"Yeah..."

"I'm going to check east next, what about you?"

"….."

"Lara?….Lara? Are you receiving Lara!?"

"Oh my..." It was at that moment Lara had turned around and up ahead was the person she least expected to be up there...

"What is it!?" Ayesha asked frantically.

"It's Sam!"