We continued our journey down the coast to Franz Josef, a tiny town of about 300 people, one cash machine and about 2 roads with anything of interest on. Our driver Lauren put her foot down in order to get there so that we could do our heli-hike on the glacier, as the weather was perfect we had to grab the opportunity to get up on the glacier. franz Josef has something like 200 rain days a year so we had the luck of the English to see it in the sun. We literally arrived, paid our money and headed to the helipad where we were kitted out with ugly boots, socks and waterproof coats...unfortunately no ice axes! At 2.30 our helicopter took off, we all got in, belted up and put on our headphones.
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