okay, where was I?

oh, yeah read the previous post or this might not make sense.
The weather was getting worse, I don't know if it was snowing or just blowing snow, but I couldn't see the moon or stars or anything by this point.
I was getting a little bit nervous. I knew enough to know that if I walked by the camp, or worse the wrong direction I was done.
The boys would notice me gone at some point, but the helicopter wouldn't be able to look for me til daylight.
So I sat down for a second and tried to imagine I was looking down from above kinda like a google earth shot. I knew where I was sitting, I knew where the boulder was I had a smoke by-and the direction I had approached it from.
BOB'S YER UNCLE as I say, and off I went, secure in the knowledge that over the next eskar was the camp, by my reckoning.
Man, when I got to the top of the hill-(Jeez I still get goosebumps when I think about this!) and saw below me-...NOTHING-every direction, as far as I could see(wasn't far because of the snow)
nothing. An unbidden google earth type image popped into my mind of me standing alone in all that frozen nothing. Oddly enough, I was able to instantly push that thought aside, and convince myself that if I kept walking, til the NEXT eskar, the camp would be behind that one for sure.
I couldn't even see the next eskar and the longer I walked the more doubt started to whisper in my mind.
It sure seemed like a long time, but finally I came to the steep side of a long curving eskar I climbed to the top and there on the other side were the tents, all warm and glowing in the night.
When the wind turned I could hear the generator chugging away.
I walked down into camp, and into the kitchen tent. There were four drillers playing crib and this one guy says to me " where were you cookie?" (cookie a nickname reference to camp cook)
My knees were knocking, my face was covered with frost, "Nowhere", I told him " I just went for a walk."