Fill in the gaps with the most appropriate narrative tenses of the verbs in brackets: past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple or past perfect continuous.
We thought that we were on the right path when suddenly we __ (run into) a very familiar rock and __ (realise) that we __ (walk) in circles for quite a long time. We __ (be) totally lost, and the fact that we __ (already/finish) our water provisions wasn't very promising. We __ (decide) to go uphill because according to John, it would be easier to spot a way out from an elevated point. He __ (learn) that from a documentary he __ (see) about survival. But what the documentary __ (not teach) John was that maybe it's not such a good idea to go up a mountain when you are exhausted and waterless. We __ (trek) one mile when we __ (start) to have a horrible feeling that that might be our last trek. Of course, we __ (say) anything, but we could see in each other's eyes that at that precise moment we __ (think) precisely the same. We couldn't walk any longer, so we __ (decide) to sit and rest, quietly, because neither of us wanted to share any of our gloomy thoughts. "Hello, can I help you?" we suddenly __ (hear). We __ (raise) our heads and __ (see) a little man with slanted eyes and a childish grin. He __ (stand) right next to us. I wondered where he __ (come) from and how long he __ (stand) there. But it didn't matter really, because we were safe.

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