After Queenstown we headed over the crown range to Fox glacier. At the top of crown range was probably the best view ive ever seen, ive got it photographed in a panorama so cant upload it. Green and Rastrick were asleep in the van at the time, it was of course very early in the morning at 11 o clock. The drive took us up a mountain range along the flats and into the rainforest. NZ has the most diverse landscape in the world. After driving through torrential rain and fog we arrived at Fox Glacier. The area around fox has a rainfall of 10m per year and on average it rains for 200 days a year. The day of our walk it was sunny!
We headed up the mountain with our bearded guide, we asked him if he'd ever walked any other glaciers, he said no, this is just a job, we asked what his main proffession was, he replied a Hunter!?!
The walk was quite tough up 500m through a rainforest, also the only place in the world where glaciers meet rainforests. The glacier itself was pretty cold but easy to climb, it was not full of crevices as it doesnt form like that, it is also growing longer and in the last 15 months has grown by 80ft.
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