TURK-ISH DELIGHT

Plastic water tanks are designed to keep water in, which makes them equally good at keeping rain and snow out. That’s why Erik Bradshaw delivered three of them to a remote part of Antarctica to house people doing conservation work. More recently, he’s been flying them onto ridgelines between Queenstown and Wanaka, creating cosy places for backcountry skiers to stay as they complete the six-day Mahu Whenua ski-touring route between Coronet Peak and Treble Cone ski fields. He calls them “turks”. As he explains, they are “not a hut, not a yurt, not a tank, so must be a turk”.

Each turk contains four bunks, cooking supplies,