Point of No Return
This is the highest elevation that we could hike to on the glacier. Behind me you will see some spire like glacial formations. Although they may not look like it, they are over 5 stories tall. It is absolutely impassible past the point at which I am at. Professional climbers with high tech equipment cannot traverse further up the glacier. The spires are too tall, moving too quickly (crazy to think that ice is moving...), and the crevasses around them are absolutely treacherous.
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 
