Friday, January 18, 2008

Holiday Pics part 2: Franz Josef glacier

Above: looking back from the glacier over the glacier valley where it has retreated from in the past three hundred years. Each of those boulders was the size of a fridge. The river was full of fast moving lumps of ice the size of a TV. Above: Jennifer and I

Above: The ice and the glacier cliff wall

Above: Me and my cramptons on the glacier.

Above: Standing at the base. Note the small line of people on it.



Below: The massive Franz Josef Glacier. When I took this picture we were still 1.5 hour hike from the base.