Ice Arch

Like a Brick From the Sky

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February 17th 2007
As I stepped onto the metal bird, the whoop, whoop, whoop of passing rotor blades above my head, I clearly heard an analogy once relayed by my friend Craig Reed, a commercial airline pilot: “If the engines go out on my plane at least I have a fighting change to bring’er down, if the engines go out on a helicopter it drops like a brick from the sky.” I have been wary of helicopters since ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Fox Glacier

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more