no technically it would have been going the opposite direction is there a helicopter
hey wait he forgot me no
come back i can't oh we're here
it's a ten dollar fee road maintenance fee to uh drive up to the remarkable ski field
approved let's go
it's quite windy up here so hopefully the audio was good we are on our way up to lake alta lake
alta is just 35 minutes out of queenstown it's situated high up on top of this giant
beast known as the remarkables and lake alta is a glacial lake it's a bit of a drive to get up there
you know it's really bad when you look at google maps and it looks like an intestinal tract
a lot of zigzagging and all that and actually lake alta is a ski field people go ice diving
there in the winter but the real reason why we're going there is because it's absolutely beautiful
from the pictures and more importantly it is also a lord of the rings location
you might recognize this place from the first movie the fellowship of the ring
right after gandalf uh sacrifices himself and falls down the pit
spoiler alert he's not really dead the fellowship runs out of the minds of maria
so once they exit the minds of murray once they exit the mines of berea they head over
to dim rail dale so dim real dale is lake alta and that's where we're gonna be going today
so come along and join us look at that view we're not even at the top yet
we're going to pull right up next to the public toilet imagine there was a lock on it
having to pee and going up a gravel road that's jumping around
i'd laugh so hard if it was locked and there he is
after what kind of felt like a that was a long peek i feel like i could have filled lake alta
with my peepee that's how much peepee there was a lot of tea and a lot of water this morning
it's about 30 minutes to get to lake alta
uh out here your worst enemy would be the sun so definitely put on that spf there's no cover
on this pike in terms of elevation we are at the alpine level we're at the very top
right behind the ridge so it's considerably cooler up here compared to queenstown love don't be mad
i forgot to bring our baju those sandwiches that i worked so hard to make today
typical shearling move i can't feel that bad because you're the one that put in all the work
it just means that we can't eat so instead of bringing two granola bars instead
i'm bringing six the last couple of kilometers driving up will be gravely and dusty
poor pony look at her she's dirty one jacket for you
one for me immediately fits in a bag
thank you macpax i think with all the promotion i've been doing for macpac
hit me up backpack if you're interested in a sponsorship deal i don't have the followers
but maybe just out of the kindness of your heart i can get some free [ __ ] we need to go
as you can see all of this is a ski field resort all the lifts i see about three or four lifts
are closed for the summer season
i think we're getting close it seems like there's like a little
ridge over there i believe beyond it we will find lake alta
after the long winter months there's still a little bit of snow want to have a snowball fight
hey
foreign
we're just switched backing our way up this steep
little section here but it's been 30 minutes so i think we're getting close to the lake
kudos to the fellowship for doing all this because
man
feeling that alpine coolness now so i'm gonna bust out the backpack jacket just like that
we've got a downfield jacket ready to get closer to lake alta aka dim dale
dim dale dale dim dimp them hill nail dumb hill let me look at my nose worst lord of the
rings fan ever damn real dale yes i'll take your grenade and stay away from that area
you'll see you come in you're here yeah we'll hear we've been seeing it
it's overcast today so it's not as as nice still beautiful but better on a sunny day
and when it's covered with snow i imagine it's even more fantastic yeah dim roll
i'll get it right dim rail dale gimbrell bell dim rail dim rail tim real dale dill
dim real dale yeah you're right ling am i ever wrong yeah most of the time so this is lake alta
yeah scourge go through all of his vlogs and count how many times i'm right so lake alta
i'm wrong once again scoured by glacier fed by ice and filled with rain water i'm right
oh my god it's glacial it is so cold wow that's so cold
there are people that swim here you're allowed to swim people ice dive here in the winter
it's really windy the wind just picked up so that helicopter can't go yet
it looks like he dropped it in the water
was it too heavy to lift the cargo just beyond what it should be carrying oh okay physically
like he took out a fire extinguisher that's the kind of weight we're talking about he got to take
oh so it's actually pushing the helicopter down yeah that's crazy and the load is fine but yeah
wow so that right there was lake alta beautiful location and we got a free show
with the helicopter it's a tough area to fly a helicopter it was at over its max capacity as to
what it could carry he's gonna start hiking back to the car downhill should be easier i think we
could get back there in maybe 20 minutes or so but thanks again for watching guys on another episode
of new zealand filming locations of uh dim rail dell did i get that right dim real dell i think
so dim real dale i think i said dell anyways thanks for watching see you on the next one
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