英语听力：2012-01-11 穿越阿尔匹斯山 Alps-14

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And now it’s time to make a fire. But don’t leave it too late. Out here, you should allow plenty of time to do this. The most important thing about making a fire, especially when you are cold and you are tired at the end of the day, is preparation. It’s no good spending a lot of effort to get a little of tinder going and then realize you’ve got no kindling³ to fuel that fire. So what I’ve got here is a really good base of quite damp wood. This is gonna support it and also let some air get to it. I’ve got a bank of snow around here. This is gonna act as a reflector to reflect heat back to me. I’ve got my tinder, some kindling and some bigger wood. And the first thing I need to do is try and get some of this tinder going. And the way I’m gonna do that, I’ve got, it was cool, just a strike and a flint. And I always carry this with me. Obviously not when I’m at home because that would just be weird⁴. But whenever I’m outside, this is the one thing I always have hanging around my neck. That means, whatever the situation I should be able to get a fire going. Or so the theory goes. 

 

And this is a critical time. They always say if you invest the effort early on in a fire, that’s the time that really matters. Now, to make some drinking water. But what I can do now is a little trick, what they call Finnish marshmallows. And if I just get a bit of wood like this, then grab a bit of snow, jam that onto the end of a bit of a stick, stick it into this, get on that, stay on, and put this underneath⁵ it, and the heat of the fire will slowly melt that. It will drip into the cup. And when I’m relaxing, I should have a glass of water in the not-too-distant future. I can now boil some water for a cup of spruce tea.

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