Jon Bennett used to be a hotel 1_________(manage) but now he has one of the most unusual
jobs in Britain. Every day since he left the hotel, Jon’s job has been to climb Helvellyn, a
mountain in the Lake District, and check the weather conditions at the summit. The
2____________ (inform) which he gathers is then passed to the Lake District telephone
Weatherline service. The Weatherline has been in 3___________ (operate) for 33 years and is
used by nearly half a million 4_________(walk) every year. They have come to rely on it to check
that it is safe before setting off up the mountain. Although Helvellyn is only 950 metres tall,
weather conditions at the summit can
change 5___________(rapid), and every year the mountain claims the lives of a number of
6______(visit). During his 7__________(child), Jon lived in Buckinghamshire, in the south of
England, but he 8_________(regular) visited the Lake District on family holidays and fell in love
with the 9___________(beauty) landscape. He studied catering at college and took the first
opportunity to move north and find a job in a hotel in the area. When he saw the
10__________(advertise) for the job with Weatherline, he jumped at the opportunity, and couldn’t
believe his luck when they told him he’d got the job. “I still can’t believe it,” he says. “It’s a dream
come true!”