On a previous occasion I have experienced a glacier at close hand. This was in Ilulissat in Greenland. Already as we approached from a distance, we could hear the cracking and roaring from the calving ice. It was happening constantly. The beautiful colours of this giant, slowly moving mass of ice is stunning and for some reason you just get quiet all of a sudden. This was the effect the glacier in Ilulissat had on me, and the same thing happened here by Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers. However, with the images of the glacier in Greenland in my mind I had a hard time getting really excited over the Franz Josef Glacier. We could not get any closer than 500 meters from the edge. As we started our walk through the giant gorge, that the glacier has actually previously filled, it did in fact seem rather impressive, but as we got closer this effect faded away, and we were actually a bit disappointed. Read more: threeonthego/threeonthego/English_Blog/Entries/2013/9/25_Pancakes%2C_glaciers_and_kiwis.html
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:47:43 +0000
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