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Beth Rodin trudges up a hill through their grassy brush with the moon lighting her way.

There's a well-worn path just next to her, but her captors won't let her walk on it because they're afraid they'll leave footprints. They can't be tracked.

Beth and the three friends, Tommy Caldwell, Jason Singer Smith, and John Dickie were taken hostage two days ago by a group of militant rebels in a remote area of Kyrgyzstan.

The Americans had come to rock climb the region's famous stone cliffs, not shuffle up a hill at gunpoint. Beth knows their captors are hiding them from the Kyrgyz army.

The group spent yesterday cowering behind a boulder as bullets sprayed around them in a fight between the army and their captors.

Then last night, they forced Beth to hide, cramped in a tiny cave along the shore of a freezing river. Both experiences were horrible in their own ways.

Things she'll never forget if she makes it home alive. But for now, they're walking again under the cover of night.

Where they're being taken, Beth has no idea.

Suddenly, the leader of their captors, Abdul gestures for them to stop and sit down in the thick brush.

She watches Abdul switch on the walkie-talkie that the kidnappers stole from them the day they took them hostage.

Abdulah, Abdulah, Abdulah. Abdul repeats his friend's name like it's a chant.

Even in the dark, Beth can see something in Abdul's demeanor shift. Beth wonders what happened to Abdulah in Obed after they left the group.

Maybe they ran into the soldiers and had another shootout. Abdul gets up and steps away from the group so that their other captors sue can't hear what he's whispering.

When he comes back, he's brisk, separating the four climbers into pairs.

He shoves Beth and John together and then starts pointing for Tommy to go Bivouac with singer and sue.

They won't be walking anymore for now.

Beth follows Abdul and John as they tunnel into the thicket on the slope.

She pulls apart the sharp branches to climb into a dusty depression.

She can hear Tommy and singer a few dozen feet away, making their own Bivouac in the dense bush.

Beth continues to push through the shrub and finally settles herself next to John.

A little rut they found to block the wind was clearly dug by an animal.

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