Detailed annotations for 'Explorers or boys messing about' by Steven Morris, a non-fiction text GCSE students will need to know for questions 4 & 5 for their English language exam at the end of year 11. These annotations go through the whole text and point out which quotations would be best to use ...
Explorers or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill
Steven Morris Adapted from an article published in The Guardian newspaper, 28 January 2003. Helicopter duo
from liferaft after Antarctic crash
,Explorers or boys messing about? Either way, taxpayer gets rescue bill
Steven Morris Adapted from an article published in The Guardian newspaper, 28 January 2003. Helicopter duo
from liferaft after Antarctic crash
, Their last expedition ended in farce when the Russians threatened to send in military planes to intercept th
tried to cross into Siberia via the icebound Bering Strait.
Yesterday a new adventure undertaken by British explorers Steve Brooks and Quentin Smith almost led to tra
their helicopter plunged into the sea off Antarctica.
The men were plucked from the icy water by a Chilean naval ship after a nine-hour rescue which began when
contacted his wife, Jo Vestey, on his satellite phone asking for assistance. The rescue involved the Royal Na
and British coastguards.
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