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Published: February 17th 2005
Today I am in a town called Franz Jozef, that is not so much a town, mainly a tourism center for trips to the neighbouring glacier. If you wonder how come it has this name, it was named like that by an Austrian guy (its European "discoverer"), aparently it reminded him of the emperor's white beard!!!
Earlier today, I actually walked on this glacier. Yesterday it rained all day but this morning looked promising. We walked over the valley, put on the ice-talonz (a metal piece you put on the shoe to help you walk on the ice), started to climb, and then the rain started... and it rained and rained and rained. Still we followed our guide that was carving stairs for us as we walked. It was amazing. Some "staircases" are really impressive, and they have to carve them everyday! For the big ones they send other guides that stand on the ice all day and carve steps... what a job.
The glacier here is a "warm glacier" - it keep moving (more than a meter a day), and it's very much alive, formations change every day.
Walking on the glacier you see great blue-white colors in the ice,
The stair case
Not the biggest one thoughand scary travesses. We didn't have ice caves today - no guarantees for anything as things change from one day to the next.
When I was in Norway with Shai, we walked to the terminal face of a glacier, and suddenly we saw people walking on it. Shai you probably remember what we said... people do crazy stuff... So today I did it too and it was fun! (escpecially when the rain stopped :-)
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Sounds amazing !
Glacier always impressed me. I'm glad you're having fun. Miss you loads !!! - Brouria