K2 SUPER CLUESDAY! Win’em, ski’em – Conquer the Earth.
Our story begins after you have been magically transported to the top of the peak identified (hopefully) in Clue #4…
It’s late afternoon and you have no headlamp, compass or topo map, but, pffft – who needs ‘em? Use the force Luke and just start skiing.
Stepping into your bindings, you cruise along a ridgeline with gobsmacking exposure on all sides. Glancing to the left and right, you come to what looks like a skiable line and turn off.
Gut-wrenching steep, exposed turns lead down a face. The sun is setting and there is mot much time. Sticking to the fall-line, you weave around seracs, icefalls and huck a few fifty-footers with blue ice landings all bathed in brilliant alpenglow. Where’s the photographer when you need him?
Then, shazaam! Stokage! You have made it through the crux of a suspected first descent! Relieved, you make big sweeping turns across a bit of a plateau, and then come to a glacier.
At the glacier, you take a skier’s left.
By now, it is pitch black and you are dodging crevasses by Braille for hours while staying on the glacier. This is misery…. when will it end?
Exhausted, you eventually see the outlines of some structures in the moonlight. Ahhhh, praise Allah…
Staggering up to the structures, you meet a climber geared up for an early alpine start and ask “Where am I?”
Instead of smiling and giving you a Vegamite sandwich like those infernal, AC/DC loving Aussies do, he fixes you with a steely gaze and reveals a BRAND NEW PAIR OF K2 TELE/AT SKIS.
Oh My God…!! Your knees tremble in eager anticipation of shredding Planet Earth. Tears of joy spring from your eyes.
Within one meter, where are you?
Winning format:
Continent: (your answer here)
Country: (your answer here)
Mountain Range: (your answer here)
Specific Peak: (your answer here)
Exact location: (your answer here… now!)
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Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Centennial Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Gardiner Hut
1. Australasia/Oceania
2. New Zealand
3. Southern Alps
4. Aoraki/Mt. Cook
5. Front Door of the Plateau Hut (now to really dig out a map!)
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceanea
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt. Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Sefton Bivy
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: De la Beche Hut
Update…i read more carefully and changed my last location.
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia-New Guinea continent (Oceania)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mount Cook (Aoraki)
Clue #5 – Exact location: De la Beche Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Mueller Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceanea
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt. Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Mullers Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Barron Saddle Hut
No….
Continent – Carstenz Pyramid, elev 16,023 feet or 4884 m, is the highest point in Australia/Oceania
Country – The home country of beekeeper Sir Edmund Hillary is New Zealand
Mountain Range – The mountain range named by Captain Cook is the Southern Alps
Peak – The Caroline Face is on Aoraki/Mount Cook
Specific location – Mueller Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Hooker Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Sefton Bivvy
1. Continent = Australasia, or Oceania
2. Country = New Zealand
3. Mountain Range = Southern Alps
4. Peak = Aoraki – Cook
5. Specific location = Base Camp, Tasman Glacier, 2400 meters
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania/Australasia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Front door of Unwin Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Barron Saddle Hut
1. Australia/Oceania continent
2. South Island, New Zealand
3. Southern Alps
4. Aoraki/Mt. Cook Caroline Face
5. pioneer Hut
Update…i read more carefully and changed my last location.
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia-New Guinea continent (Oceania)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mount Cook (Aoraki)
Clue #5 – Exact location: Mount Cook Village
Hi
Here is my answer for the K2 skis comp
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia/Oceana (Australia/NZ)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Andrew McLean’s Basecamp???
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Murchison Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Onslow Hut
Continent: Australia/Oceania
Country: New Zealand
Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Peak: Aokori / Mount Cook
Specific location: door of the Hooker Hut
1. Australasia/Oceania
2. New Zealand
3. Southern Alps
4. Aoraki/Mt. Cook
5. Ball Shelter – at the picnic tables (thanks Amar!)
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Hooker Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: (Australia/Oceania)
Clue #2 – Country: (New Zealand)
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: (The Southern Alps)
Clue #4 – Peak: (Mt Cook)
Clue #5 – Exact location: (Kelman hut)
I posted in the other place
Whether I’m right or wrong, one thing is certain. I am too slow.
These skis are getting rust on their edges, although there was one very close guess. It has to be within one meter.
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Murchison Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Baron Saddle Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Zelandia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: The Hermitage
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location:Liebig Hut
1. Continent = Australasia, or Oceania
2. Country = New Zealand
3. Mountain Range = Southern Alps
4. Peak = Aoraki – Cook
5. Specific location = Ball Shelter 1030 meters
Australiea
New Zealand
Southern Alps
Mt. Cook
Unwin Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia (Australia/NZ/Oceania)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt Cook (Aoraki)
Clue #5 – Exact Location: Pioneer Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania/Australasia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Mt Cook YHA Hostel
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealad
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mount Cook / Aoraki
Clue #5 – Exact location: The shitter of the Tasman Saddle Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Wyn Irwyn Hut
Hi
Here is my answer for the K2 skis comp
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia/Oceana (Australia/NZ)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Copeland Shelter
Continent – Carstenz Pyramid, elev 16,023 feet or 4884 m, is the highest point in Australia/Oceania
Country – The home country of beekeeper Sir Edmund Hillary is New Zealand
Mountain Range – The mountain range named by Captain Cook is the Southern Alps
Peak – The Caroline Face is on Aoraki/Mount Cook
Specific location – Gardiner Hut
Ed S. AlpsOceania
New Zealand
Southern Alps
Mt Cook/ Aoraki
Tasman Hut – outhouse crevasse (“you fall you die” outhouse)
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania/Australasia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Empress Hut outhouse?
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia (Australia/NZ/Oceania)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt Cook (Aoraki)
Clue #5 – Exact Location: front door of Haast Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location:De La Beche Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Copland Shelter
Clue #1 – Continent: (Australia/Oceania)
Clue #2 – Country: (New Zealand)
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: (The Southern Alps)
Clue #4 – Peak: (Mt Cook)
Clue #5 – Exact location: (Hooker hut shitter)
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Zelandia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: King Memorial
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Deck of Tasman Saddle Hut
1. Australasia/Oceania
2. New Zealand
3. Southern Alps
4. Aoraki/Mt. Cook
5. Ball Shelter- at the door?
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mount Cook
Clue #5 – I am at my desk, not doing what I am supposed to be doing
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia/Oceania (Australia/NZ)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Aoraki/Mount Cook visitor centre
Marcin