My original concept was simply a hunter carrying the head, and hide of a Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep down from the mountain. 

It was nearly sundown when the hunter starts his trek down, there’s a good chance he would consider a route that was shorter than the one that brought him to his quarry, the route had taken him all day. 

The more I thought and worked the steeper the slope became, until it is the rock wall as you see it.  I changed his posture to illustrate his predicament, and he knows that the shortcut is more difficult, perhaps dangerous and may take even longer than back the way he came. 

I think we’ve all been there.