Then, as they reached their target, their tent blew away and the men lay down to die.
'And it was so windy the tent nearly blew away!'
Without those eight stakes, the tents could and had blown away, like down puffs on the wind.
Many had already packed up and fled after their tents flooded or blew away.
One theory was that the tent had blown away in a storm and that the party had frozen to death.
But the tents always blew over in the wind.
I pointed out the wind could get really fierce in places like that and our tent could easily blow away in the night.
After the tent blew down we renegotiated the situation so that for 11 performances they would receive the same fee.
A tent would blow right away.
They found the various members of the company still rigid and separate, like a circle of tent pegs after the tent has blown away.