The Remarkables

They would chop it in to the sets each day.

It's genuinely shot around the Remarkables and on TV.

So it's quite amazing.

And also at base camp in the Himalayas and with the Sherpas.

And one of the key scenes, I'm assuming, again, I haven't seen it, but is on the Hillary Step when they're trying to climb that.

And you had to recreate that in the Remarkables, which is a beautiful mountain range on the South Island of New Zealand.

So tell us about how you anchored cranes there.

on some slope.

The film crew is looking for lighting to be correct and accurate.

And there's always some trade-off when you're trying to link a location in a place like New Zealand through to the likes of Everest.

The Remarkables is a very steep, rocky mountain range above Queenstown.

What we're blessed with here in New Zealand is some of the best helicopter pilots in the world that come from an era of what we called deer recovery.

Yeah

... and if you're up on, uh, where I skied, Remarkables and Coronet Peak-

Yeah

... just some unbelievable views that are kind of reminiscent of Scotland a bit.

You're going to get your money's worth.

I just did a DJ set at Remarkables like a couple of hours ago.

It's like… I'm not a DJ.

But like we make it work and everyone's there.

I'm glad you were up and had a great time at Kelly Holiday's set at Cone.

What were you doing? I'm going off a schedule.

I was at Remarkables having

also an equally or probably better time, to be

And so we go up this park called the Sugar Bowl.

at the Remarkables.

And, you know, we're skiing down this kind of gentle, you know, it's kind of a blue slope.

So, not particularly, you know, like it's challenging, but not really, really challenging.

You've got water surrounding this little peninsula.

And then in the backdrop is the Remarkables, the mountain ranges.

Oh, that's cool.

That is cool.

reputation.

Do you have a name for yours?

I'm going to steal from Queenstown and it's going to be the Remarkables.

The Remarkables? Is that what they call those? Well, those

Queenstown in October has average highs of only fifty-seven degrees Fahrenheit to sixty-one degrees Fahrenheit.

Overnight lows that regularly dip below forty-three degrees Fahrenheit and occasional snow still possible on the Remarkables.

Auckland beats Queenstown on temperature by a consistent seven degrees Fahrenheit to ten degrees Fahrenheit margin in October.

But the article is careful to say these are different trips, not interchangeable ones.

We were just like, oh, we'll go to Queenstown because Queenstown's beautiful and we know we want snow.

so we'll go and do it in June and then we got there and it was heavy heavy snow it was freezing luckily my cousin was down there at the same time as us and he had a truck with chains on his wheels so he could take us up the mountains so we went up the Remarkables like right before the sunrise and like shot there for a day it was like a three-day shoot so we got we got a lot out of it which was um I mean how could you not when you're in Queenstown you know yeah

so it is an absolutely fantastic video clip i'll encourage everybody to go and check that out and uh you know you and luke do some great work together from the video side of things i really do enjoy uh what you two put together and i think there's a there's a couple of looks in the video which shows a familiarity to the person who's behind the lens and that really comes through to the viewer as well it's really cool

Oh, that's great.