“I was about to die!” Three writers recount terrifying close calls.


“A gale blasted the tent with sudden, extreme force, ripping up the stakes and prying up the floor and rolling the shelter onto its side before I had time to scream,” Earl Swift writes. Illustration: John Garrison

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