At 9h15 we checked-in for our full day glacier hike. We got all the gear (raincoat, overtrousers, gloves, crampons, hats, etc.) and after a short bus ride were dropped off near the Franz Josef Glacier. We walked through the forest and along a river for an hour and then got near the bottom of the glacier. We put our crampons on and started our walk on the ice. We were in a group of 11 people and had one guide with an axe (he actually played in Lord of the Rings 2 as one of the orcs!). As we got further onto the ice, he just started chopping through the ice to make some steps for us... We climbed for a while and then stopped for lunch on some rocks. It had been raining all morning, so when we stopped, we got really cold! Franz Josef actually gets an average of 6 meters of rain per year! After lunch we continued the hike over the ice and went through some very nice bright blue ice tunnels. The view was amazing from up on the glacier, cause it is one of only three glaciers in the world that is surrounded by rainforest. We even saw an alpine parrot called a kea that was walking over the ice (we never really understood why it bothered walking rather than just flying over it...). In total we spent 7 hours on the glacier and really enjoyed it! It was an amazing experience and definitely recommendable to anyone! (don't do the half day hike, it's a rip-off!) We got back to Chateau Franz in time for the evening soup and then cooked some spaghetti bolognaise and had dinner with some friends from the bus.
Weather: lots of rain down below, cloudy but not rainy on the ice, very cold everywhere...
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Glacier hiking??? you people are craaaazyyyy.... pero que maravilla,no?? yo kiero ver fotos!
btw, would have loved to watch the elections with you guys...joe!
en gros ya rien a foutre a part escalader des glaciers sous la grele, regarder le seigneur des anneaux le soir en pantoufles (tu peux aussi faire ca a longridge road) et se faire draguer par des vieux japonais en rut----
OUI...le mont everest..je n'y avais pas pensé pour le prochain voyage... pierre escaladera et nat sautera sans parachute mais avec des ski aux pieds pour freiner à l'arrivée..apres on pourrait envisager la taversée du sahara en bicyclette (en se nourissant de sauterelles)et au depart du cap ferret rejoindre le cap horn sur mon bateau..j'ai encore plein d'idées: on en parlera à noel
VEEL LIEFS
PAPA
papa pedale comme une femme d'afrique du nord --- donc la traversee du sahara a velo se fera avec lui sans doute. il mangera les sauterelles, pendant que pierre escaladera --- bref.
ici a londres il fait le meme tps qu'en nouvelle zelande, on mange aussi des pates bolognaises, bertrand regarde le foot (90%) et les elections americaines (10%).
Bravo pour le pere de Pierre qui ecrit bien des mots Neerlandais! Peut-etre on peut tous participer au voyage au Sahara en patinage...
A bientot (= Tot snel)
Nathalie's mama
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