[00:01.87]Listening

[00:03.80]Exercise 1 Listen to the radio programme

[00:07.48]about Marek Kaminski and answer the questions.

[00:11.48]Good evening and welcome to Adventure.

[00:14.20]Today we're going to talk

[00:15.52]about modern explorers.

[00:17.77]Let's begin with a story of Marek Kaminski.

[00:21.01]In the studio

[00:21.60]we have Matt Thomas who has recently

[00:23.94]interviewed the polish explorer. Hi.

[00:26.63]Marek Kaminski's two most famous expeditions

[00:30.47]so far were in 1995, weren't they?

[00:33.62]That's right.

[00:34.84]In the first one to the North Pole

[00:37.00]he traveled on skis with Wojtek Moskal

[00:40.15]and got to the Pole on the 23rd of May 1995.

[00:43.62]He called the journey 'Poles tothe Pole'.

[00:45.99]That's good name.

[00:47.59]Yes. And his second one was a solo journey

[00:50.00]tothe South Pole by himself.

[00:52.68]He traveled 1400 km

[00:55.38]and got to the Pole on the 26th of December

[00:57.91]in the same year.

[00:59.53]He called the second journey 'A Pole

[01:01.45]to the Poles'.

[01:02.83]And did he have any problems on this one?

[01:04.89]Mmm. His beggest problem was wind,

[01:07.92]blowing with speeds up to 330 km per hour.

[01:12.52]And there were temperatures

[01:13.51]of minus 60 degrees C.

[01:16.05]Antarctica's a tough place, you know.

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