Exercise 1 Listen to the radio programme about Marek Kaminski and answer the questions.

Good evening and welcome to Adventure. Today we're going to talk about modern explorers. Let's begin with a story of Marek Kaminski. In the studio we have Matt Thomas who has recently interviewed the polish explorer. Hi. Marek Kaminski's two most famous expeditions so far were in 1995, weren't they?

That's right. In the first one to the North Pole he traveled on skis with Wojtek Moskal and got to the Pole on the 23rd of May 1995. He called the journey 'Poles tothe Pole'.

That's good name.

Yes. And his second one was a solo journey to the South Pole by himself. He traveled 1400 km and got to the Pole on the 26th of December in the same year. He called the second journey 'A Pole to the Poles'.

And did he have any problems on this one?

Mmm. His beggest problem was wind, blowing with speeds up to 330 km per hour. And there were temperatures of minus 60 degrees C. Antarctica's a tough place, you know.