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We're back in the middle of nowhere.

This man is dressed in full camouflage.

He has a big, sharp, shiny knife at my throat.

Real people.

It was amazing how fast it happened.

One minute I was laying there listening to Louis Armstrong,

and within four minutes I was in the ocean fighting for my life.

Who faced death?

We were surrounded by water.

I was scared again, really scared, because I had no clue where we were at and how far away

we were from land. And lived to tell how. We're going to die or we're going to live. And

damned if he's going to take that choice away from us, we're going to fight with everything we

have. This is I survived.

It's September 2009 in Signal Mountain, Colorado.

Nina and her sister-in-law Kim are staying at Kim's cabin with their families.

We headed up there Saturday evening,

spent the night up there, and then first thing in the morning, before everybody

else woke up, I wanted to go hiking. There's a trail through the meadow that links up with this

incredible trail that goes up to Signal the Mountain. I definitely wanted to take Nina on it.

I do it. Every time we were up there, I would do it in the morning before breakfast,

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