Sabi Sands Lion Encounter in Darkness

I use to work for a company called Echo Africa (A great place to work for)we had a concession in the Sabi Sands and wow was that a lot of fun!!
We opperated in the southern Sabi Sands (Liu Lekker) was the concessions name. Anyway my self and a co - worker (Andre) worked together on this specific evening with all the other staff (Chefs etc)We finished at about 9h30 and all the guest left for their hotels. Andre and I had to wait for the ladies to finish before taking them home and we left at about 10hoo when we arrived at the gate we realised we left the radios on the wall at the boma and new we had to get back to fetch it before the gates close at 11h00 anyway we dropped the staff at the gate and rushed back to see it we could find the radios but on arival we saw a Hyaena walking away into the darkness. We went to inspect but found nothing and then we realised that the Hyaena had taken the radios. Andre and I each took a parrafin lamp and off we went to look for our radios we found 2 but still missed one so then we regrouped and decided to go off a bit deeper into the bush and suddenly I heard something and I told Andre to be quite so that we can listen and as I lift my lamp (Boom)two big male lions about 8 meters from us we looked at each other and just slowly started backing off once we got to the road we were about 60 meters or more from the vehicle and started moving faster and faster and at about 20 meters from the vehicle we started running (Never turn and run) for the vehicle as we got into it the lions came running past they missed us by inches. The lions went their way and we had to rush to get the gate in time. It was a great but very very dangerous and fast experience.