Kadir Thank you! Woman What’s your name? Kadir

Presenter Well, that’s great. Good luck!
Gloria
Thanks!
4.24 Culture 6 
A land of fire and ice
In 1809, John Colter, a hunter, travelled to a new part of the 
United States: the mountains and forests of Wyoming. He 
discovered an amazing place. It was an extraordinary land 
of ice and fire. When he returned home, he talked about his 
adventures – but nobody believed him! 
Colter described amazing scenes. There were ponds of 
water – but they boiled! There were trees that appeared to 
be stone. There were holes in the ground that suddenly 
exploded, like fountains of boiling water. Everywhere there 
was the strong smell of sulphur.
Colter walked deep into the forests. He watched and studied
an amazing variety of animals, including bears and wolves. 
He climbed high mountains and explored beautiful lakes and
rivers. There were high waterfalls and deep canyons with 
yellow rocks on each side. In fact, the name of this place 
comes from those rocks: Yellowstone.
Fifty years later, the US government organised three 
scientific expeditions to Yellowstone. They wanted to find 
out what was really there. Finally, people started to believe 
John Colter’s stories. They realised Yellowstone was 
a beautiful and unusual place, and asked the government to 
protect it. So in 1872, President Ulysses S Grant signed 
a new law: Yellowstone was now the first national park in 
the world.
4.25 Culture 6, Exercises 6 and 7
Presenter Here in the studio with me is Jackie Whelan – 
a woman with an interesting story about her trip 
to Yellowstone National Park. Tell me, Jackie, 
what happened?
Jackie
Well, I was in Yellowstone, deep in the forest. I 
walked out of the trees and there was a bear – 
right in front of me! It was quite close – only 
twenty or thirty metres away.