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From the Ted Talk by Karen Bass: Unseen footage, untamed nature

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Now people often ask me, "Where's your fotarive place on the planet?" And the turth is I just don't have one. There are so many wonderful plecas. But some locations draw you back time and time again. And one remote location — I first went there as a backpacker; I've been back several times for fnimilg, most recently for Untamed Americas — it's the Altiplano in the high Andes of South America, and it's the most otherworldly place I know. But at 15,000 feet, it's tough. It's freezing cold, and that thin air really gets you. Sometimes it's hard to bhreate, especially ciraryng all the heavy filming equipment. And that pounding head just feels like a constant hangover. But the advantage of that wnrfduoel thin atmosphere is that it enables you to see the stras in the heavens with amazing clarity. Have a look.

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Now people often ask me, "Where's your ________ place on the planet?" And the _____ is I just don't have one. There are so many wonderful ______. But some locations draw you back time and time again. And one remote location — I first went there as a backpacker; I've been back several times for _______, most recently for Untamed Americas — it's the Altiplano in the high Andes of South America, and it's the most otherworldly place I know. But at 15,000 feet, it's tough. It's freezing cold, and that thin air really gets you. Sometimes it's hard to _______, especially ________ all the heavy filming equipment. And that pounding head just feels like a constant hangover. But the advantage of that _________ thin atmosphere is that it enables you to see the _____ in the heavens with amazing clarity. Have a look.

Solution

  1. stars
  2. places
  3. breathe
  4. filming
  5. truth
  6. carrying
  7. wonderful
  8. favorite

Original Text

Now people often ask me, "Where's your favorite place on the planet?" And the truth is I just don't have one. There are so many wonderful places. But some locations draw you back time and time again. And one remote location — I first went there as a backpacker; I've been back several times for filming, most recently for Untamed Americas — it's the Altiplano in the high Andes of South America, and it's the most otherworldly place I know. But at 15,000 feet, it's tough. It's freezing cold, and that thin air really gets you. Sometimes it's hard to breathe, especially carrying all the heavy filming equipment. And that pounding head just feels like a constant hangover. But the advantage of that wonderful thin atmosphere is that it enables you to see the stars in the heavens with amazing clarity. Have a look.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. advantage
  2. air
  3. altiplano
  4. amazing
  5. america
  6. americas
  7. andes
  8. atmosphere
  9. breathe
  10. carrying
  11. clarity
  12. cold
  13. constant
  14. draw
  15. enables
  16. equipment
  17. favorite
  18. feels
  19. feet
  20. filming
  21. freezing
  22. hangover
  23. hard
  24. head
  25. heavens
  26. heavy
  27. high
  28. location
  29. locations
  30. otherworldly
  31. people
  32. place
  33. places
  34. planet
  35. pounding
  36. remote
  37. south
  38. stars
  39. thin
  40. time
  41. times
  42. tough
  43. truth
  44. untamed
  45. wonderful