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2e Extreme conditions Vocabulary& Reading 1 Look at the picture. Where do you think this place is? under the sea? on a mountain? on another planet? inside a cave? inside a volcano? in a frozen waterfall? 2 Listen and say. The phrases are taken from the text. What do you think the place is like? Read the text to find out. temperature of 50°C and humidity of 100% dusty, thick and heavy air heat hits you like a wall sweat pouring out of your skin breathing becomes heavy forest of giant crystals The Deadliest! Place on Earth? A it's 50°C in here, with a humidity of 100%. Less than a hundred people have been inside and it's so deadly that even with respirators and suits of ice you can only survive for 20 minutes before your body starts to fail. It's the nearest thing to visiting another planet - but we're going deep inside our own! While making documentaries. I have been lucky enough to film everywhere from tiny Pacific islands to the centre of the Sahara Desert, yet nowhere could prepare me for filming in the Giant Crystal Cave, the Cueva de los Cristales of Mexico. Â My director and I arrived in the quiet town of Naica as the morning sun painted the Chihuahuan Desert gold. It was a moment of calm that didn't last long. Within minutes we were going downwards inside the mine. The air became dusty, thick and heavy. Sweat poured out of my skin. Deeper and deeper we went. 1,000 feet down, we arrived at the control room where conditions were already an exhausting 45°C and 55% humidity. Here we met Gonzalo Infante of Speleoresearch & Films, who for more than five years has tirelessly worked to share the wonders of Naica with the world and to preserve them for future generations. It is his experience, and a 15-man team, that kept us alive as we filmed this geological wonder. C “You think this is hot?' said Gonzalo, pointing towards an iron door. “This is just a cool breeze compared to what you will feel like in there... ready to go?" At this point I had expected to step into a bright orange ice-suit and put on a huge respirator backpack, Everyone else was dressed lice astronauts preparing to go on a spacewalk, but Gonzalo insisted that our first visit should be a completely natural experience. He wanted us to physically and mentally prepare, just in case we ended up spending much longer inside than we had expected. Anxiously we pulled open the door and entered. D My glasses steamed up and their metal frames almost burnt me. I had to leave them at the entrance. Sweat poured from my head, my energy was sucked away, and my breathing became heavy. My eyes led me forwards, but my body wanted to go back. I was standing among a forest of giant gypsum crystals as sharp as blades - the largest crystals ever discovered, some up to 12 metres long (about the height of 6 men!) and as heavy as 55 tonnes. E The view was incredible; everything around us glittered, as though we were standing inside a star. However, within just five minutes I had gone from a fit 30-year-old to an unfit 60-year-old. As the air became hotter, I only hoped that I would survive to tell the tale. This was going to be the most challenging shoot of my life. F For over half a million years these crystals have been slowly growing out of hot hydrothermal fluids rich with minerals. Left undisturbed, one can only guess how big they may have eventually grown. Yet when mining began in the area over a hundred years ago, the cave was drained and the development of the crystals froze forever. It wasn't until 2000 that miners, searching for lead, eventually discovered it. This began the slow decay of the crystals and now no one knows what their fate will be. G Once the mine stops operating, the cave could be flooded by polluted mine water and abandoned forever. And that's if mineral sellers don't get to the crystals first and rip them out to set around the world, which has already happened to other smaller crystal caves in the area My hope is that Gonzalo will succeed in finding funding to preserve this site as a World Heritage Site. To me it is a wonderful example of the hidden forces of our planet Who knows what other wonders lie hidden deep inside the Earth? Check these words humidity, respirator, breeze, steam up, gypsum crystal, blade, glitter, challenging shoot, drain, decay, fate, operate, funding, World Heritage Site 3 Read the article again and match each paragraph (A-G) with its heading (1-8). You can use each heading once. There is one extra heading. 1 Valuable research 2 A journey of contrasts 3 In danger of destruction 4 A unique experience 5 Painful temperatures 6 Distant and recent past 7 Beautiful but deadly 8 Ready for anything 4 Complete with: sucked, funding, exploring, breeze, sweat, abandoned, rip. 1 It was exhausting exploring the cave; I was so tired afterwards I could hardly walk! 2 Sweat ran down Sam's face as it was very hot inside the cave. 3 They fear visitors will rip the crystals out to take them as souvenirs. 4 The mine was abandoned after it closed; no one has been there for years. 5 Our energy was sucked away. 6 A gentle breeze blew through the entrance of the cave. 7 He is trying to find funding to preserve the cave. 5 Match the words in bold with their meanings: emptied, without giving up, pulled away powerfully, sparkled/shone. 6 Complete with: ice, crystal, bone, nails, lightning, bat. 1 The rocks looked wet, but when I touched them they were as dry as a bone. 2 The water in the spring was as clear as crystal. 3 The boy grabbed the cake as quick as lightning. 4 After playing in the snow, James' hands were as cold as ice. 5 Jack is as blind as a bat without his glasses. 6 Janet won't give you any sympathy; she's as hard as nails! Speaking & Writing 7 Think! Listen to and read the text. Now close your eyes and imagine you are inside the Giant Crystal Cave. What can you see and hear? What is happening to you? How are you feeling? Open your eyes and write a paragraph about this in your notebook. Read it to the class. 8 ICT Find out information about another amazing cave in the world. Report your information back to the class.