1. Read the article. What is the best title? Write it in the correct place.

a. Father and son lost in the snow for days.

b. Teenager survives alone on mountain.

c. Boy phones emergency services from mountain.

Are you a fan of survival programmes on TV? You know, the ones where experts tell us how to survive in really scary situations. you watch one, perhaps youTl leam how to survive alone in the wild just like seventeen-year-old Nicholas Joy from the American city of Medford. Read on to learn more!

One day in March, Nicholas was skiing in the mountains with his father, Adam, when he decided to take a different path back to their car. Adam waited for his son in the car park, bụut when he didnt come back, Adam immediately phoned the emergency services.

Nicholas was lost and alone in a forest on the mountain. He had no mobile phone, the weather was very bad and it soon got dark. He remembered survival programmes from the TV and he decided to stay where he was that night.

He quickly built a shelter from snow and tree branches, and he found some drinking water in a small river nearby. He then tried to light a fire by quickly moving two tree branches together.

Nicholas spent two nights alone on the mountain in his shelter.

But at 9:00 on the third morning, a man on a snowmobile found him. The teenager was hungry, tired and very cold, but he was unhurt.

Next time there’s a survival programme on TV, perhaps you should watch it. Just think: you could learn something useful!