We woke up early this morning to an overcast sky, perfect for hiking a glacier. We arrived at the place where we booked our trip and got all dressed up for the hike - boots, winter jackets, gloves, mitts, winter pants and crampons (spike things that you put on your shoes to stick in the ice.) We got on a bus and headed towards the glacier, many of the instructors were from Canada. It was about an hour hike through a valley to get to the bottom of the glacier. We saddled up put on our crampons and set about getting up the glacier. It was a strange feeling being on a moving mass of ice. Quite humbling too. We were told that we would be heading for this peak of rock that came out of the glacier, the point of an ice fall that was making its way down the top of it.
We climbed up through mounds and hills disappearing into crevices and climbing out of them only by paths created in the crevices walls, we were being led by a guy with a pick axe a sense of adventure and some adrenaline hungry followers (us). It was awesome, we’d be squeezing through gaps no wider than our hips sometimes smaller, hoisting ourselves out and over gaping gaps in the ice. Holly was a bit of a wimp in the start but soon learnt that she had no choice but to suck it up and go with it. It was the most fun I think I’ve ever had on Ice.
We spent about 5 hours on the glacier looking in things, jumping on things and learning heaps about how the whole operation worked. The weather was terrible but I think it added to the fun of it. We were so waterproof it was silly.
We got back to the hostel and spent the night relaxing resting our poor feet and weary limbs. A great day though!!
Kia Ora,
David & Holly
Technicolour Yawn . Vomit or the act of vomiting.
After eating some bad Kiwi fruits and jumping off a Canyon Bridge tied to a bungi rope may cause technicolour yawn.
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