2026年10月14日 星期三
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(Kai) “I think that discipline, to me, means being able to work hard at something that you strive to achieve and staying focused on that goal, and never letting it go no matter what. You should always have that ambition and that drive to do the thing you love to do.”
(Kai) “My name is Kai Lightner and I'm 14 years old.”
(Kai’s mother) “I have no idea what got him so hooked on competition climbing.”
(Kai) “I've been competing forever. I competed at my first nationals in 2007.”
This is Kai's coach. He says Kai was placed fourth when he competed at his first world championship.
(Kai’s coach) “He has won anything you can win in America.”
In the morning, Kai practices before he goes to school. After school, he does homework and goes to the climbing gym. He doesn't have time after school to hang out with his friends.
(Kai) “There’s not much climbing in Fayetteville.”
(Kai’s mother) “He loves the people, he loves the environment, but it’s not the same as the competition walls, or even the competition-type routes that he climbs.”
So Kai goes to the Triangle Rock Club to climb once a week. It’s about an hour and a half away from his city.
Kai also likes to climb outdoors. When climbing outdoors, he pays attention to things around him, such as the weather. It’s different from climbing indoors because conditions indoors are always the same.
(Kai) “To me, climbing is climbing no matter where it is, whether it’s outside or inside
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“It’s a glimpse into the center of the Earth. It’s like listening to the heartbeat of the planet.”
This is Sam Cossman. He’s at the crater of an active volcano in the island nation of Vanuatu.
“All right, so let’s use the drone to…”
Sam Cossman is an explorer and filmmaker. He’s here to record the volcano in a way that’s never been done before. He’s using drones with cameras to capture amazing close-up footage of the volcano. The drones allow Sam to take thousands of great photographs. Sam uses these photos to create first-of-their-kind 3D models of the volcano, like this one. But things don’t always go perfectly. Because of the extreme heat above the volcano, many of the drones fall into the lava and get destroyed. Sam’s job is exciting, but it’s also dangerous. There are poisonous gases, and the heat is extreme—over 500 degrees Celsius!
Sam works closely with Jeffrey Marlow, a geo-biologist. Jeffrey is searching for life in the rocks near the volcano’s lava. The lava is way too hot for things to live in, but the rocks near the lava are cooler—below 120 degrees Celsius. Jeffrey is interested in the lifeforms that live in these hot rocks. By studying these tiny lifeforms, Jeffrey hopes to learn more about how life first formed on Earth. Sam’s cameras are very important in Jeffrey’s research. They allow Jeffrey to check his work more carefully. For example, he uses the footage to check exactly where he was when he collected a rock sample. Sam’s 3D models are also useful. They allow Jeffrey to study the different layers of the volcano in detail.
Sam believes that drone videos can be used in many other areas of research. He wants to bring together the worlds of exploration, video, and science to help push the limits of discovery farther.
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