A confrontation with falling
“Don’t look down,” said the person behind me, and so, of course, I turned and shone my light downwards.
Torre DeRoche is the author of two travel memoirs, Love with a Chance of Drowning (2013) and The Worrier’s Guide to the End of the World (due out September 2017). She has written for The Atlantic, The Guardian Travel, The Sydney Morning Herald, Emirates, and two Lonely Planet anthologies.
“Don’t look down,” said the person behind me, and so, of course, I turned and shone my light downwards.
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