Frans Joseph Glacier

It's time for my latest update but after just reader my brothers latest blog, I must confess I'm rather uninspired to write mine. Never the less I shall go on.

Much has happened since my crazy jumping in Queenstown. From there we went to Dunedin, Te Anau and a cruise along Milford Sound, back to Queenstown (where the craziness hit me again and I did a bungee jump. Seriously, there's something in the water there.) And then we began heading up the West coast stopping to explore the glaciers.

There are two in the area, Fox and Frans Joseph, however it was Frans Joseph which we would be exploring. Our glacier walk began about 2km from the base of the glacier, when our group had to trek through forests, cross many streams, climb up and down several ladders placed rather worryingly against rock faces and eventually made it to the glacier. We had a wee stop then once we put our crampons on our boots we were good to go. It was a strange sensation walking and climbing up steps of ice, and not having to worry about sliding about.


We climbed up and down, literally squeezed through tiny walls of ice, and explored lots of little parts of the glacier. You'll have to excuse my lack of technical terms.

It was so much fun and although we were only able to see a tiny part of the glacier, it was pretty spectacular.

I hope the photos can give you a good picture of what it was like, as I said, my brains not really functioning this morning!