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By midday, the small party of students, led 7 _______ one of their
teachers, had reached a height of 2460 feet. At this point one of the students,
Paul Martin, a boy of sixteen, felt seriously ill, so the party 8 _______ to stop climbing.
The only thing the teacher could do was to return to the hut where they 9 _______ the night, because
mobile phones didn’t work in that area. From the hut, he telephoned the police.
As no rescue team could reach the student quickly enough, a helicopter, with a
doctor on board, was sent to the scene. The helicopter soon arrived, but the
sides of the mountain were so steep that it couldn’t land. The pilot, therefore kept the
helicopter in the air with only one wheel touching the mountain-side while the
party carried the boy on board. It was such a frightening experience for the
boy that he will never forget it. “I 10 _______
I hadn’t been on that excursion,” said poor Paul Martin when he was interviewed
at General Hospital a few days later.

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