...4km long...nowwhere else on earth glaciers are seen at such low altitude and so near the coast-this one is a frozen juggernaut at its awsome best-galcier melts at its lower end as it slides down the valley and again builds up at its higher end ,the rate of descent of this mamoth is mind-blowing:a wreckage of a plane that crashed in to Fox Glacier in 1943 at the top end made it down to the bottom end some 7 years later,speed of 1.5meter a day!
...there are hundreds of glaciers in the world-these are remains of the last ice-age-and they hold some 70% of all the fresh water-if everything fozen now on earth melted today then most the land would be under water-
...Mount Cook Lookout point-we could just see the snow covered top of Cook-3700 meters and it's majestic-could also see Fox Glacier from here-it was wonderful day to view all this huge ice...
...middle left is Fox Glacier-left of Fox is Mount Tasman(3400 meters) and further left is Mount Cook...
...should have brought bottle of JD as plenty of ice nearby-idea was to trek on the ice with a guide for a day but as I had a head cold we decided we will trek glaciers in Chilean Patagonia at the tip of South America-not a bad substitue!
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