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: 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: Albert Haast memorial
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 Water tank
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: Ball shelter 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: Unwin Hut Outhouse
#1- Oceania
#2 – New Zealand
#3 – Southern Alps
#4 – Mount Cook
#5- Murchison Hut
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 – De La Beche Hut first bunk on the right
steely look in eyes…
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 Mueller 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: Empress Hut Porch
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: moraine at Ball Shelter
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia / Australia / NZ (you know where)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: bottom of the porch of the Plateau hut
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: Gardiner Hut deck
Sounds like the highest hut on the mountain to me . . .
Clue #1 – Continent: Australia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand, South Island
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt. Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Tasman Saddle Hut front door (standing next to the Aussie)
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: Kelman Hut (2460m)
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: Tasman Saddle Hut Outhouse
1. Australasia/Oceania
2. New Zealand
3. Southern Alps
4. Aoraki/Mt. Cook
5. At the door of the Gardiner Hut (gotta ski West facing in the evening)
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: Kelman Hut Bunk
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 Kitchen
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Copeland Shelter outhouse
Clue #1 – Continent: (Australia-New Guinea)
Clue #2 – Country: (New Zealand)
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: (Southern Alps)
Clue #4 – Peak: (Aoraki/Mt. Cook)
Clue #5 – Exact location: (Chamonix bar)
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 Porch
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: “Not everyone who wander is lost”… I am not and have a pair of skis in my hand! :-)
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia / Australia / NZ (you know where)
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki/Mt Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: bottom of the stairs on the porch of the ball hut
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: Kelman Hut deck
1. Continent = Australasia, or Oceania
2. Country = New Zealand
3. Mountain Range = Southern Alps
4. Peak = Aoraki – Cook
5. Specific location = Tasman Glacier Basecamp, 2395 meters
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: Tasman Hut Outhouse
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: Plateau hut balcony
Marcin
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceanea
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt. Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location: Caroline 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: Outhouse entrance, 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: Tasman Saddle 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: by the radio in plateau Hut
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Godley Hut the outhouse
Still there….
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: Statue of Sir Edmund Hillary outside 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: Unwin Lodge Porch
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: (Plateau hut front steps)
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceania
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Aoraki
Clue #5 – Exact location: Plateau Hut, down underneath the overhang
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceanea
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt. Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location:Welcome Flat Hut deck
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 – De La Beche Hut above the sign
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: Snowline Bar at Unwin Lodge
Clue #1 – Continent: Australasia
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mount Cook
Clue #5 – Onslow Hut the outhouse
Oh ShZo…. do you like to ski? ‘Cause you’ve got a pair of K2’s coming your way!
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: Snowline Bar at the Hermitage
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: plateau hut Kitchen
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: Kelman Hut (2423m) (made of steel)
Clue #1 – Continent: Oceanea
Clue #2 – Country: New Zealand
Clue #3 – Mountain Range: Southern Alps
Clue #4 – Peak: Mt. Cook
Clue #5 – Exact location:outhouse of plateau 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: Next to the Snowcat parked by the Plateau 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: Tasman saddle hut kitchen
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 helipad where you left the car? (It’s night and you are lost as all hell)