Extensive listening: Adventures of an asteroid hunter

Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter, part of a group of scientists working to discover and catalog our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors. 

Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In this short, fact-filled talk, Nugent explains how their awesome impacts have shaped our planet, and how finding them at the right time could mean nothing less than saving life on Earth.

Carrie Nugent is part of a team that uses NASA's NEOWISE telescope to search the skies for and catalog asteroids.

You can read a full transcript here.

Talking point: Survival

This week's talking point is survival. Before getting together with the members of your conversation group, go over the questions below so that ideas come to mind more easily the day you get together with your friends and you can work out vocabulary problems beforehand.

When was the last time you went to some kind of natural environment?
What did you do there?
How did you prepare for your trip?
What advice would you give to people that are planning to do these activities?

Camping in a forest

Backpacking in a foreign country

Swimming in the sea

Hiking in the mountain

A visitor is coming to stay in your country or region. What would you tell them about the following?
- endangered species and where you can find them
- dangerous animals or other creatures (e.g. birds, fish, insects)
- other possible risks or dangers (e.g. diseases, dangerous places, travel, weather)

ANECDOTE
Think of a dangerous situation that you or someone you know was in, or it could be something you know about from a book, a film or the news. Make notes about the following questions:

Where and when did it take place?
Who was involved?
What was the scene or background to the story?
What were the main events?
How did you / the person feel?
What was the outcome?

To illustrate the topic you can watch the video planning for backpacking around the world.

Reading text: The best adventure holidays in Europe

Read the descriptions below of the best adventure holidays in Europe according to The Guardian article 10 of the best adventure holidays in Europe and choose the heading A-I below which best corresponds to each of the texts. There are two headings you do not need to use. 0 is an example.

HEADINGS
A - Don’t go for it if you are afraid of heights
B - For participants with a different level of expertise
C - If you don’t mind very cold temperatures
D - Not if you are at beginner’s level Example
E - Slow travel
F - Spotting something unusual
G - Vestiges of past eras
H - Walking on very unusual terrain
I - You might get sick eventually

Text 0
The Persians named Cappadocia “the land of beautiful horses” after its wild mountain ponies – and the striking landscape of deep canyons and strangely shaped rocks is perfect for an unusual horseback adventure. Ride Worldwide has an eight-day group trip that crosses plateaux, canters along valley floors and explores remote villages. With up to six hours in the saddle each day, it’s best for intermediate riders and above. Riders camp each night in a tipi (putting them up themselves), and dine in traditional style on kilims and rugs in the central tent. There’s also an option of guesthouse or boutique hotel accommodation.

Text 1
A walking and cycling trail, the Via Dinarica, launched two years ago and runs for 1,000km from Slovenia’s Dinaric Alps in the north to Macedonia, via Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania. There are three options: the high mountain White Trail, the Green Trail, which is ideal for cyclists, and the easier Blue Trail, along the Dalmatian Coast. Local company Green Visions has tailor-made guided trips on the White Trail, and a Best of Via Dinarica group hike through Montenegro and Bosnia.

Text 2
The Iberian lynx once roamed over half of the Iberian peninsula. Today it’s the rarest cat in the world and only found in two locations: the vast, coastal Doñana national park south of Seville, and the rugged Andújar natural park in the north of Andalucia. There’s plenty of adventure to be had in both parks – from 4x4 safaris to guided hikes – but for a good chance to see the elusive lynx, The Travelling Naturalist has a seven-night, expert-led group trip to both parks, where visitors also learn about conservation, and might spot other wildlife such as mouflon wild sheep and Spanish imperial eagles.

Text 3
With ancient forests, high mountains and Unesco-protected villages where life hasn’t changed for centuries, Transylvania offers one of Europe’s last great wildernesses, and plenty of fascinating history and culture, too. Adventure doesn’t need to be fast-paced; British firm The Slow Cyclist has new group and independent trips for 2016, lasting from three days to three weeks. Its four-day Enchanted Saxon Transylvania trip covers 90 miles, from the Saxon village of Cund south-east to Viscri at an unhurried pace with plenty of time to stop at local homes, visit shepherds on hilltops and discover little-visited historic sites.

Text 4
Estonia’s Baltic coast is wild and unspoilt. Many of its 1,500 islands, which were used in the 1950s for Soviet military testing, are now wildlife havens. Explore by kayak, paddling between islands with eerie remains of Russian watchtowers and abandoned farmhouses, and prolific birdlife. Adventure operator Reimann Retked offers several kayaking group trips, with hikes and camping on remote isles. Its two-day Prangli and Kolga Bay Islands tour visits four islands, with a stay on Prangli, still home to about 150 people. Scuba diving is an option on some trips.

Text 5
Mountain walkers have plenty of options in Europe, with countless adventurous routes (Switzerland alone has over 30,000 miles of marked trails). For a less expensive alternative to the Alps, try Slovakia’s High Tatra, which runs along the border with Poland, offering dramatic walks with 20 summits of over 2,500m in just 26km. The soaring views of rocky peaks, lush valleys and sparkling lakes are reward for burning thigh muscles. To plan an independent trip, slovak-republic.org has details of routes and hotels. Alternatively, Utracks offers a new challenging guided eight-day group hut-to-hut trip: a head for heights and ability to walk with your own backpack for up to eight hours a day is recommended.

Text 6
With its mix of mountains, fjords, remote villages and quiet coastal roads, Norway is a strong contender for an adventurous self-drive. Go in summer when the days are long, pack a tent and wild camp along the way (it’s legal here, though there are great campsites and cabins, too). Among the most spectacular drives is from Bergen north to Trondheim which includes a stretch on the Atlantic Road, with eight bridges linking islands, and the chance to spot seals and whales. It’s about 430 miles, and winds through the longest road tunnel in the world and the zig-zag bends of Trollstigen. Fly back from Trondheim or, time-permitting, head back to Bergen via Sogndal. Norwegian flies to Bergen and Trondhein from Gatwick.

 Horse riding in Cappadocia, Turkey. 

Photograph: Keren Su/Corbis for The Guardian

Key:
Text 1 – B
Text 2 – F
Text 3 – E
Text 4 – G
Text 5 – A
Text 6 - I

Holidaying In Warzones

Adventurer Andy McGinlay believes he is the world’s most fearless traveller. He spends his holidays in the world's most dangerous countries.

Self-study activity:
Watch the video and answer the questions below.



1 What practical reason does Andy give to go to war zones for his holidays?
2 How old was he when he was in a war zone for the first time?
3 How much money did he have to pay to the soldiers in Fiji to be released?
4 Where was the Central World Mall burnt down?
5 What business has Osama Bin Laden's house in Kabul been turned into?
6 How old is Andy?
7 What does he do?

Whoa. This is scary.
While most of us look forward to relaxing on holiday, Andy McGinlay spends his vacations in some of the most dangerous places in the world seeking out coups, civil unrest and even war zones.
My idea was that by going to dangerous countries I kind of got my head above the parapet and it gave me more to talk about, I had more of a story to tell after those kinds of trips.
He got the taste for adrenaline while travelling around the world aged 18, when he found himself in the middle of a military coup in Fiji in the year 2000.
I arrived into Fiji, just after the coup started and, well, they have curfews during the coup. You have to be indoors by 6 p.m. and I just disregarded it and the soldiers caught me, they arrested me and after a couple of hours, he ended up asking me for a bribe. I payed $2 and that was it, I was out.
From then, he started to make a beeline for more exciting holiday destinations.
Yemen, the feeling was very uneasy; it was a very tense situation. Al-Qaeda was huge at the time and the war in Iraq was still very, very much ongoing. I was taking pictures of the Red Shirt protest movement in Bangkok in 2010 and I was on the front line between them and the Thai army in a park in downtown Bangkok and at one point the soldiers were shooting at us, firing live rounds way over my head. It was very scary. I was literally running for my life. There was a protestor; he was wearing a black bandana. He came up to me while I was filming and said that he was going to burn down the Central World Mall.
Smash the **** Central World Mall to ****. Steal everything out of it and burn the **** down.
Within 2 days, the mall burnt down.
Last year I was in Kabul, Afghanistan and I payed this local guy to drive me around and at one point he said, “Look out on the left hand side, look there’s Osama Bin Laden’s house.”
“Osama Bin Laden’s house was there? When did he live there?”
During the Taliban
During the Taliban.
Turns out now, it is a restaurant. So if you want, you can go and have a shawarma or something.
The American black hawks, they were flying over head. I could hear the pop, pop, pop of Kalashnikovs. I think that kind of gun, just firing up into the air. I can assume some local Taliban were trying to hit the helicopter.
Originally from Glasgow in Scotland, the 34 year old is now a teacher in Saudi Arabia. But even where he lives, isn’t proving that safe.
There is of course the constant threat that you are surrounded by maybe people who are sympathetic towards IS or Daesh as they are called here. The week I arrived in Dammam in the east of Saudi Arabia, there was a bomb in a mosque which killed a few and then right here in one of the mosques behind me just about a month ago at the end of January, IS bombed another mosque and killed four. So, you gotta be on your toes.

10 Questions for Poet John Ashbery

American poet John Ashbery talked to TIME some time ago about fame, poverty and art criticism.

Self-study activity:
Watch the video and say whether the statements below are true or false.



1 John Ashbery doesn't think of himself as the most important living poet in America.
2 John Ashbery reads what critics say about him.
3 John Ashbery enjoys reading his poetry in public.
4 John Ashbery thinks poetry is less popular these days.
5 John Ashbery is gay.
6 John Ashbery lives off poetry.
7 John Ashbery would rather be America's most important living poet than anything else.

Hi, I’m Belinda Luscombe. I’m an editor-at-large at Time Magazine, but you’re not here for me. You’re here for John Ashbery, often called America’s most important living poet. Thanks for letting us come here, Mr Ashbery.
Thank you for coming.
You won an award from the National Book Association last night. Are you, in fact, America’s most important living poet?
I don’t think so important. I get talked about a lot. But for many years the jury has been out and probably will be on the question of my importance. I enjoy writing the way I do, which doesn’t please a lot of people, pleases others enormously.
Do you ever read what the critics write about you, what poetry and literary critics write about you and just think, this is hysterical or this is ridiculous?
No, I don’t feel that this is ridiculous because I don’t know. Maybe they’re right. I haven’t got that much confidence in my writing. That’s more like, you know, hope rather than confidence.
Do other forms of poetry interest you, poetry slams, those kind of things?
I don’t really like poetry readings very much, including my own. I hate the sound of my own voice, for an instance I can’t stand listening to myself reading poetry. And that goes true for most other poets.
Do you think that there’s any way in which poetry, which in my lifetime and probably in yours seems to have become less and less popular, do you think there’s a way that it can become more part of people’s life again?
No… My perception is…
I’m prepared to be wrong.
… is that there’s a much bigger audience for poetry than there was when I was young. In fact, when I began writing there was really only one poetry magazine in the country. Poetry. Today there seems there’s so many magazines, presses, so many poets I have the impression that poetry is liked more by those who like it than was the case in the past.
Now you grew up in an era where it was considered shameful to be gay, and that is no longer the prevailing view, I would say.
Oh, really?
You don’t… well? I guess the jury’s out.
Nobody told me.
It’s certainly not as prevailing as it was. Would you go that far with me?
Sure.
Do you think if that attitude had been current in your life it would have changed your work?
I’ve never been sure how that would’ve worked. There’s a school of criticism who says that my poetry is so tortuous and obscure because I’ve been trying to cover up the fact of my sexuality all these years. And I think that’s an interesting possibility and there may indeed be some truth in it. But I’m not quite sure how much and whether that’s the generating force in my poetry. I think I would’ve been attracted to this kind of poetry anyway.
Do you currently make a living off your poetry?
Heavens, no. I mean, gosh, no. Sucks, no. No, not at all. I’ve made a living teaching, which I’m now retired, that’s one thing poets can do and many of them do to survive.
If you could swap places and you could, instead of being America’s most important living poet, you could be America’s most important living something else, what would you like it to be?
I don’t think I’d wanna be anything else. I think I, I’d rather stick with poetry.
Mr Ashbry, thanks very much.
Thank you.

KEY:
1T 2F 3F 4F 5T 6F 7T

Embracing the unknown

Breezy Jackson and Paul Koubek find love in adventure and adventure in love.

Self-study activity:
Watch the video and answer the questions about it. The activity is suitable for intermediate 2 students.



1 What commitment have Breezy and Paul made?
2 What do Breezy and Paul do?
3 What's the rate of women who live in Antarctica compared to men?
4 What three adjectives does Breezy use to describe Paul?
5 What adjectives does Paul use to describe Breezy?
6 What do acrobatic yoga and being committed in a relationship share?

To check your answers you can read the transcript below.

We don’t know where we’ll be in five years or ten years or twenty years and we’ve embraced the unknown, we’re committed to the unknown that we are gonna be faithful to each other (1).
Faithful into that.
Yeah, we’re going to be faithful to each other, no matter what happens, and that’s a huge adventure.
It’s an unknown for sure.
Yeah. That’s so exciting though.
Yeah, right.
We’re live in Yosemite. We rock climb and ride bicycles and hang out in beautiful meadows. Paul is a rock guide and I am a research scientist (2). We met in the Antarctica.
For sure any new place to find your future wife in a place that is about 25% female (3).
Yeah, Paul scored.
Yeah, it’s true.
He got lucky. So Paul is a total romantic, and he takes me on these amazingly well-planned romantic dates. Our early day was rock-climbing in Smithsonian Rocks.
Learning to scuba dive in Bali and we’ve gone sport climbing in Thailand and…
I mean, we have encouraged so many people here in Yosemite on their honeymoon going rock-climbing, in Yosemite on their honeymoon and that’s our everyday…
Yes, good, good, good, good, good. Hang in there.
I love that Paul is so dynamic and adventurous (4). You know, the analogy of climbing to marriage is that your partner is going to be the person who sees the worst in you and holds that space for you.
Nice, go for the jug, way at the top, I got you.
They are also the person who’s there to catch you.
Even when, even when you’re having your total meltdown.
Breezy is intelligent, beautiful, an amazing yoga teacher…
Flexible.
Flexible. Yeah, for sure. Adventurous (5).
You know the great thing about flexible people? They can’t be bent out of shape.
Yeah, exactly.
One of the things that I value… a lot about Paul is that he doesn’t only rock climb. He’s interested in a lot of different activities. We also do a lot of like acrobatic yoga.
Communication is essential like you will experience failures repeatedly, and deal with frustration as well in acro yoga is in our relationship. It’s interactive, it’s intimate, it’s physical. All of yoga is physical, but it’s a physicality shared with another person. We both really respect and admire each other…
Yeah.
And that’s one of our strengths. It should be a basic in a relationship.
And that balance (6). We balance each other really well.
Nice. Strong belly.

Extensive listening: The ascent of Alex Honnold

A couple of years ago CBS's 60 Minutes aired a segment about Alex Honnold, a 26-year-old rock climber from Sacramento, California, who scales walls higher than the Empire State building, and who does it without any ropes or protection.

You can read the transcript of the segment here.

Hoping to strike gold in the California wilderness

Sarina  Finkelstein's book, The New Forty-Niners, documents the new wave of gold seekers she found living on the banks of streams throughout California and attempting to make their living as gold miners, just like the "Forty-Niners" of the original Gold Rush of 1849.

Self-study activity:
Watch the video and answer the questions below.

The activity is suitable for intermediate 2 students.



1 What happened in 2009?
2 What is said about the price of gold?
3 How did Sarina find out about the new gold prospectors?
4 What two characteristics do we learn about Martin, the protagonist of the book?
5 What did Duane do with the gold he found?
6 What is the main appeal of looking for gold for most people today?

You can check your answers by reading the transcript below.

So it all started in May of 2009. That year the United States experienced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930’s (1), highly leveraged banks imploded, millions were off from their jobs, foreclosure rates  sky-rocketed and the saving of many retirees were wiped out, so the value of the dollar went down, but the average price of gold between 2005 and 2010 quadrupled (2).
I stumbled across a magazine article or newspaper article (3) about a small community of gold prospectors that were mining and looking for gold in the Angeles National Forests. One day I just bought a ticket and decided I was going to go out there and find them.
I happened to meet what I would call the protagonist of the book, Martin, who was this little guy, smaller than all the others but who worked obsessively (4), who would move this gigantic six-foot boulders out of the river just to try and find gold.
Mirela came out with her husband Jeff to California from Idaho, and here she is working with the classifier and sifting material into a bucket that Jeff had just dug out of the hole.
This is Duane and his dog Moses and their trailer in the Klamath National Forest, and Duane basically came out I believe in 2011, 2012 to the Klamath for just a week with very few materials and he prospected up and down the Klamath River, along the banks, and managed to get enough gold that he could bury his mother who passed away that year (5).
You know, in this day and age there’s still a sense of gold fever that existed in the 19th century of people going out in mass out west, but there’s also an interesting aspect in the modern age which is that I feel there’s a lot of people who want to abandon a cubical lifestyle, who don’t want to work in theoretical ideas in an office and who really want to work with their hands and to find something (6).

Circumnavigating the world

Jason Lewis became the first people to circumnavigate the earth by using just human power. He started off the journey with his friend Stevie Smith, who dropped out in Hawaii. Jason carried on  alone.


Self-study activity:
Watch this three-minute BBC video clip and say if the statements below are true or false.

The activity is suitable for Intermedio 2 students.




1 It took Jason thirty years to complete the journey.
2 All the means of transport he used had pedals.
3 It took them a bit more than three months to cross the Atlantic.
4 Jason was run over by a vehicle during the trip.
5 One of the reason why Jason kept going was because of the huge support he got.
6 After twenty days pedalling in the Doldrums he hadn't made any progress whatsover.
7 The locals in the Salomon Islands couldn't believe the boat didn't have an engine.

You can check the answers and read the transcript below.

My name is Jason Lewis and I’m the first person to circumnavigate the world using just human power. People have rode across oceans and people have bicycled across continents, but no one had yet connected a continuous journey all the way around the world just using the power of their own body.
It took me thirteen years. We would bicycle across the continents, inline skate, walk, and across the oceans we would use a specially-designed pedal boat, we would kayak, so any means of non-motorised non-wind assisted transport, it was just the human body.
Calling all stations. This is pedal boat loch shore.
We struck out into the Atlantic in this tiny little boat, the support boat went back and land slipped beneath the horizon, only then did I really, I think, appreciate what it was that I had got myself into.  Five thousand miles it ended up taking 111 days a little over three months.
It does take a tremendous amount of effort to not really get the dream off the ground but also then to keep on going. Sometimes I mean I was run over by an 82 year old drunk driver with cataracts in Colorado, for example. You know, that was a huge trip ender right there. But it is important to finish what you start and I think the more I got into this and the more people that were behind it the more people that were living and travelling by vicariously through the website or we had hundreds of schools following online. It just became almost like a part of me. The expedition became me and I became the expedition and it just seemed really important to finish it.
One of the lowest points of the whole expedition was pedalling for two and a half weeks on the spot in the Doldrums. So I would pedal for 18, 19 sometimes 20 hours a day, find out that I was back where I had started from the previous morning. And after a day of this, I was pretty depressed. After a week, it, you know, I was tearing my hair out and after two and a half weeks I just curled up in the bottom of the boat and I just gave up, I just, I cried, I just felt like I could not keep pedalling when I wasn’t going anywhere.
I would never have gone to the Salomon Islands, for example. We pedaled in there and the locals came up in their dug-out canoes. It was just a completely surreal experience, both for ourselves, pedalling in there, but also I think for the locals seeing this pedal-powered boat, you know, they were looking for the engine, where’s the engine?, no engine. And we lifted off the pedal unit, oh it’s a bicycle, and it just blew their minds.
Pretty much anyone could do this trip. I think that’s the thing that appealed to me was just so beautifully simple, and it was one of those adventures, one of those journeys that just have to be done.

Key:
1F 2F 3T 4T 5T 6F 7T 

World's tallest climbing wall

Watch this short Geobeats video clip on the world's tallest climbing wall.

Self-study activity:
Complete the blanks in the transcript with the missing words.

The activity is suitable for Básico 2 and Intermediate 1 students.



The tower called 'The Excalibur' is the world's tallest climbing wall. Located in Groningen, The Netherlands, the vertical structure stands (1) ... feet high.

Climbing is a popular hobby among adrenaline (2) ... . The tower called 'The Excalibur' is the world's tallest climbing wall.

Located in Groningen, The Netherlands, the vertical structure stands (1) ... feet high. However, the most notable aspect is a bend in the (3) ... . From a distance, it appears as though the (4) ... is tipping over.

The curve tips (5) ... feet away from the base, serving as an overhang. That aspect replicates the grueling (6) ... of climbing a real (7) ... .

The free-standing Excalibur was built in 2004 at a (8) ...   ... . An employee at the facility stated "The wall offers a (9) ... experience for anyone interested in climbing and doesn't want to travel too far. The routes are of varying difficulty so beginners can climb on it too. But don't expect to (10) ... the top on your very first time!"

The outdoor (4)... is strategically set among the flat, (11) ... countryside, which means (12) ... seekers can take in the beautiful views while scaling the (13) ... .

Key:
1-121   2-junkies  3-design   4-tower   5-36  6-twists  7-peak   8-climb center   9-unique  10-reach  11-picturesque  12-adventure   13-structure

How to clean the world's tallest windows

Supersized Earth is a BBC programme that explores the way  we have redesigned our planet to build the modern world.

Dallas Campbell, the show's host, goes up to the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which has the world's highest windows. He joins the team whose job is to clean them.

Self-study activity:
Watch  the four-minute video clip and answer the questions about it.

The activity is suitable for Intermediate students.



1 How far below is the next platform?
2 What would happen if Derek dropped anything?
3 What two factors are really important to build buildings this high?
4 What is the main danger for tall buildings?
5 Can you explain what 'confusing the wind' is?
6 How long does it take to clean all the windows?
7 How many windows are there?

To check your answer you can read the transcript below. Remember you can double click on any word to find out its meaning.

Today, I’m going to join the team whose job it is to clean the outside of the world’s highest windows.
Just pull a little slack free. Just pull up on this one. A little bit more.

Okay, now lock the handle off.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay. Okay, just lean back, just lean back. You’re okay, you can’t go anywhere.
Okay.
I need the bucket.
Yeah, hang on a second. Take this…
Dry mouth.
Do you get nervous at all?
Yes. Scared – little bit scared? Yeah. I haven’t looked down yet. Now I’ve looked down!

It’s almost inconceivable how high these windows are. I’m 60 meters above the next platform below, which is, in itself, 600 meters above the ground higher than the previous world’s tallest building. At this height, if I dropped anything, it could do serious damage.
Building height, is a load of factors you’ve got to take into consideration. One of them obviously is gravity, which I’m feeling right now. The thing about gravity is it’s very predictable. It’s a force that’s going one way. The thing you’ve really got to worry about is wind, because by its very nature it’s unpredictable, it swirls around and it can affect the building, as well as window cleaners.
Surprisingly, very tall buildings aren’t in danger of being blown over, but of being sucked over. As wind hits them, it can form small whirlwinds, called vortices. This swirling air can create low-pressure areas that tug at the building. And if enough of them combine up the tall straight sides, they could make the tower rock from side to side. So why doesn’t this happen to the Burj Khalifa? Well, it’s taken some careful aerodynamic design. By stepping the building in as it rises and introducing angles and curves, the Burj Khalifa breaks up the desert wind, preventing the vortices from combining dangerously. The designers call it ‘confusing the wind’, and they reckon it’s the only way to build this high.
It strikes me, being out here, that even though we are in such a technically advanced building, that – in order to keep it nice and clean, you still can’t beat a man with a squeegee and a bucket. It takes three months to clean all 24,000 windows, and when they finished, the team has to start all over again.

If you are going to build a building that’s truly iconic, you’ve got to make it look nice.
And keep it looking nice!
And keep it looking nice, exactly, yeah.
Keep going, you’re all right. Keep going, lovely.
Wow, that was intense! I don’t know how those guys do it every day. That was intense, but good.

103 Miles With Sharks -Fill in the blanks exercise

Any day now, Diana Nyad will set out to do something no athlete has ever done: swim all day and all night, then all day and all night, then all day again.
She will swim about 60 hours in the churning sea, 103 miles across the Straits of Florida from Cuba to Key West. Every hour and a half, she will stop to tread water for a few minutes as she swallows a liquid mixture of predigested protein and eats an occasional bit of banana or dollop of peanut butter.

This is the beginning of The New York Times article 103 Miles With Sharks. Go to The Learning Network and fill in the blanks in the paragraphs with only one word.

Use your own words and phrases, or scroll to the end of the post to choose from a scrambled list of the words that were removed.

Another option? Read, the original article first here, then fill in the blanks from memory.

You can check your answers by reading the original article.

There is also a slideshow provided where you can see some photographs of Diana's feat and read comments that explain her routine.