WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BOOTS?!.
FIRST THINGS FIRST.
Firstly, I’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who came to see us at the festival last weekend! We had a fantastic time and it was lovely to chat about mountains and adventure with so many of you. We had almost 200 entries to the competition with eight of you getting the answer pretty much bang on and lots of really creative answers, too. As a thank you we’d like to offer all of you 20% off across the site. Just use code KMF at the checkout! You’ve earned it! Laurie - EIC Founder
so what did happen to the boots?
These boots were used in an attempt to climb all 214 Wainwrights continuously, unsupported. After 12 days of hiking in winter conditions my feet had become both swollen and incredibly soft. Anywhere my boots had even the slightest crease/indentation they were essentially just rubbing my skin off. Having run out of bandages I had no choice but to cut the boots to relieve pressure on my poor toes and heels. The boots and my feet managed roughly 27 miles in that condition before I made the decision to call it a day with 150 Wainwrights completed - a record at the time. I ended up in A&E with suspected frost bite but made a full recovery aside from a few scars. You can see more details and a photo (graphic content warning on the far right image) here and here.
A SELECTION OF OUR FAVOURITE ANSWERS
While these answers weren’t necessarily prize winners, we thought they deserved a mention nonetheless!
‘the toes were cut off to create an emergency bra’
‘cut up for a prize draw’
‘ravaged by a bear - had to be cut out of boots’
‘Bob in marketing ripped them up for a good prize draw story’
‘Nesting bats made them their home’
‘ran so fast from a bear that when stopped feet came out the front’
‘Just been for a pedicure they didn't want the nail polish ruined’
‘Early prototype for open toed hiking boot / fish trap combination’
‘Toes ripped off by a hippo’
‘after a long life cut apart for childs science experiment testing properties of different materials’
‘burried underground for a year’
‘the boots forrest gump Used on his marathon’
‘dinosaur chew toy’
‘mouse ate the toes and made a mouse house’
‘toes were hot but ears were cold so cut toes off and wore them as ear muffs’
‘walked through mordor! But got ruined because one does not simply walk through mordor’
‘cut out to make improvised sunglasses’
‘BRUCE BANNER WORE THEM HIKING WHEN HE TURNED INTO THE HULK’
THE PRIZES WINNERS
There were quite eight people with an equally accurate answer so we drew the overall winner at random from these.
The winner of our grand prize (20 medal holders and 20 medals) is:
Courtney Johnson
There were so many creative entries (we’ve included some of our favourites below) but the eventual winner of (10 medal holders and 10 medals) is:
Bella (Krystyna Kocaj)
‘The man got chased by a bear, fell in lava and then acid and then a volcano’
Bella really covered all the bases!
The remaining 13 winners were drawn at random and are as follows:
£20 Earned It Co Voucher Winners
Leanne Davis - Cameren Lockie - Claire Ashton - Richard Hanks
£20 Ascendancy Apparel Voucher Winners
Harrison Morse - Chris Collishaw - Mollie Barnes - Lizzie Angood
£10 Earned It Co Voucher Winners
Dan Cottle - Ruth Walker - Liam Sullivan - Lynn Whitehall - Edie Shemilt
Claim your Prize..
To claim your prize, please send us an email at info@earneditco.uk with the word ‘winner’ in the subject. Please contact us from the email address with which you entered the competition.