英语听力：自然百科 徒步南非：喀拉哈里大沙漠—11
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（单词翻译）
Long before this was a national park, it held the fascination1 of a man who wrote this lovely old book, Mr. GA Farini and he fell in love with this place when it was undiscovered, wild frontier land.
The Great Farini, otherwise known as William Hunt, was a famous Canadian showman, best known for crossing Niagara Falls on a high-wire in 1860.
Having
retired2 from
acrobatics3, the
intriguing4 Farini continued his waterfall interests by coming here, an adventure that probably made him the first white man to cross the Kalahari.
“My expedition has completely disproved the long-prevailing notion that the Kalahari is a barren
wilderness5.” Well, I completely agree. Now there’s just a small matter of finding those falls and I think it’s gonna get a bit tougher.
Farini’s drive to explore the Kalahari on foot was revolutionary. Today, walkers come here all the time, but the area still has to be respected. The National Park’s designated three-day trail isn’t for the faint-hearted. You need to carry all your own equipment, food and water. And there’s no electricity or showers on hand.
This walk is closed for five months of the year because of the heat. And today I can understand why.
And the further you climb away from the only water in the park, the more you realize how little shelter there really is. But the climb leads me to a high point called A*, the best possible view of the Orange River.
What a gorgeous
gorge6! She is a beauty! Definitely worth all that hard work to get up here.
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