Walking on ice 5k walk up to the start (end) of the glacier

Walking on ice

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August 14th 2005
- FOOD: Lunch sitting on the glacier. Another headlit dinner in a car park. - AREA: Walking (or rather mountaineering) the astounding Franz Josef glacier, squeezing through it's narrow blue caves and jumping crevaces. - PEOPLE: Mountaineering guides who knew what they were doing. Slow (and scared) people in our group. - WEATHER: Blue sky shining on this mass of ice. Sun 14th Aug: Fra ... read more

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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