Franz Josef Glacier

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Climbed the glacier today, am soaked to the skin even in dry clothes as it appears to suddenly be monsoon season!
The glacier was awesome, never seen anything like it, also v scary to climb, lots of big crevaces and drops and the odd bridge to cross......
Conviniently the glacier no longer has a nice smooth incline to the top at the start but a vertical face, which we had to climb! Takes a long time as the guides have to cut a path way into the rock with an ice pick, once at the top there are millions of pools filling the crevaces and it can get quite slippery.
Definitely scarier than a sky dive!
Oh and since everything got wet, my personal attack alarm has malfunctioned and makes a continuous clicking noise, though if you pull the pin it still works, just everyone can hear me coming now!

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Comments

[Kate]

Hmmmmmm
Franz Joseph, one of the best places on earth... although I guess slightly less beautiful in the rain! Oh I'm so jealous, we had to come home so soon! Its great to read all about it and so great to follow your route in my head. As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are otherwise you will miss most of your life - enjoy it tl xx

[xKerryx]

Irish?! Even better! xx

[Joan Slipper]

busy busy
Hello Helen, your Dad gave us your site we are so pleased that you are having such a wonderful time here in N.Z. We are very proud of our little country. There will be lots more for you to do, enjoy it all.