"Unless this has ever happened to you, you cannot understand the escalating sense of panic. I'd just get right back up, I thought. No. I could get my arms up on solid ice, but every time I did, another chunk broke off. Reach, crash. Reach, crash. The water had already saturated my parka, making my arms feel leaden. I don't know whether the water was over my head or not, but I knew I could not touch bottom."
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