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The document highlights the incredible feats of modern adventurers, including Ed Stafford's trek along the Amazon River, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner's climbs of the world's highest peaks without oxygen, and Meagan McGrath's skiing journey to the South Pole. It emphasizes the use of technology in adventuring and the adventurers' commitment to raising awareness for environmental and charitable causes. The text also encourages readers to embrace adventure despite the inherent risks involved.

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Amazing - Adventurers Reading b1

The document highlights the incredible feats of modern adventurers, including Ed Stafford's trek along the Amazon River, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner's climbs of the world's highest peaks without oxygen, and Meagan McGrath's skiing journey to the South Pole. It emphasizes the use of technology in adventuring and the adventurers' commitment to raising awareness for environmental and charitable causes. The text also encourages readers to embrace adventure despite the inherent risks involved.

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Easy reading: Amazing adventurers (level 3) – text

From walking along the entire Amazon River to skiing to the South Pole, check out some of the
21st century's most amazing adventurers!

Amazing adventurers!
Have you ever dreamt of climbing Mount Everest or walking to the South Pole? If so, you’re not alone.
Every year, thousands of people try to climb the world’s highest mountains or walk across continents.
Unlike the explorers of the past who used maps and compasses, today’s adventurers travel with modern
technology like GPS and satellite phones. Many adventurers are nature lovers who use their travels to help
raise awareness about a range of environmental issues, while others are keen to help people in need and
raise money for charities. Let’s take a look at some of the 21st century’s greatest adventurers.

Amazon adventurer
Ed Stafford from the UK is the first person to walk the length of the Amazon River. He started by a small
stream in the Andes mountains of Peru and arrived at the river’s mouth in Brazil, two years and four
months later, having walked 6,000 kilometres.

The Amazon rainforest is home to poisonous snakes, crocodiles and jaguars, so Ed was in constant
danger. Luckily, he survived with nothing worse than a few thousand mosquito and ant bites. On his trip,
Ed had to find food to eat every day. A lot of the time, the fruit, nuts and fish he ate were hard to find and
he often felt weak and exhausted.

Ed’s walk would have been impossible without technology. He used a radio to ask the people of the
rainforest for food and permission to cross their land. Many of them came to meet him and helped guide
him through the most difficult terrain. As he walked Ed wrote a blog, recording his day-to-day experiences.
He used the media interest in his trip to protest about the destruction of the rainforest and raise money for
environmental and children’s charities in Brazil and Peru.

A mountain climber
Over 4,000 climbers, aged from thirteen to eighty, have been to the top of Everest. Though climbing high
mountains in freezing conditions and violent storms is still extremely dangerous, the world’s best climbers
now look for new challenges.

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner from Austria fell in love with mountain climbing as a teenager. When she left
school, she worked as a nurse, but kept climbing in her free time. Having climbed Everest, she decided to
climb all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks. To increase the challenge, Gerlinde climbs without
using oxygen tanks. This is risky as low oxygen levels at the top of high mountains can affect brain and
body functioning. Gerlinde uses her fame as a climber to support a charity for poor children and orphans in
Nepal.

Hungry for adventure


Not content with one amazing trip, some of today’s adventurers go from challenge to challenge. Meagan
McGrath from Canada has climbed the highest mountain on each continent, ridden a bike across Canada
and run a long-distance race in the Sahara Desert in 45ºC heat. But perhaps her most remarkable journey
was a skiing trip to the South Pole. On the first day, she fell into a glacier and had to be rescued. Many of
us would have given up at that point, but Meagan decided to carry on. She reached the South Pole forty
Easy reading: Amazing adventurers (level 3) – text
days later, having pulled a sledge with a tent and all her food behind her through freezing conditions and
ice storms.

Erik Weihenmayer from the United States is another multi-adventurer. He’s ridden a bike through the
deserts of Morocco, kayaked through the Grand Canyon and climbed Everest. Amazingly, Erik has been
blind since the age of 13. Apart from his travels, he tries to encourage people with disabilities to live active
lives and takes groups of young blind people on climbing expeditions.

Where next?
Despite new technologies, crossing continents and climbing mountains still has many risks. Preparation
and fitness training are absolutely essential, but if you have a sense of adventure, there are endless
possibilities and still hundreds of unclimbed peaks in the Andes and Himalayas.

Robin Newton
Easy reading: Amazing adventurers (level 3) – exercises
Do the preparation exercise first. Then read the text and do the exercises to check your understanding.

Preparation
Match the vocabulary with the correct definition and write a–h next to the numbers 1–8.

1…….. a tank a. to help or provide money

2…….. destruction b. working or operating

3…….. functioning c. newspaper, TV and the internet

4…….. the media d. amazing, unusual

5…….. remarkable e. a metal container containing gas or liquid

6…….. risky f. to live through a difficult situation

7…….. to support g. dangerous or unsafe

8…….. to survive h. destroying something

1. Check your understanding: multiple choice


Circle the best option to complete these sentences.

1. Erik / Gerlinde / Ed didn’t have to cope with freezing weather.

2. Erik takes groups of blind people up mountains / along rivers / through deserts .

3. Ed often felt tired due to the lack of sleep / food / oxygen .

4. Gerlinde / Erik / Ed used technology to contact people.

5. Meagan / Gerlinde / Ed wasn’t discouraged by an accident early in the journey.

6. Gerlinde supports a charity that helps blind people / the environment / children .

7. Gerlinde / Erik / Meagan hasn’t done a long-distance bike ride.

8. Gerlinde / Ed / Meagan had to look out for wild animals.


Easy reading: Amazing adventurers (level 3) – exercises

2. Check your understanding: gap fill


Complete the sentences with a number from the text.

1. The oldest person to climb Everest is _______________ years old.

2. Ed Stafford’s journey took _______________ months.

3. Erik Weihenmayer went blind when he was _______________ years old.

4. The Amazon is _______________ kilometres long.

5. Meagan McGrath took _______________ days to ski to the South Pole.

6. There are fourteen mountains with a height over _______________ metres.

7. More than _______________ climbers have reached the top of Everest.

8. Temperatures in the Sahara Desert can reach _______________ degrees Celsius.

Discussion

Which of these amazing adventures do you think is the most impressive?

Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learnt in this lesson.

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