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Days 9-11: Hanz and Franz

Well actually, we visited the Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers. Hanz was just an Austrian guy in our tour group. Yep, we booked a tour so we could walk on the ice…

It was a small group (8 of us) and we had our first experience using crampons. Well, they were more like crampon-lite since they were only a few inches square, but they kept us from slipping to our death (a tourist died on the Franz Josef the day before). It was a gorgeous day.

Our group on the the Fox Glacier.
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Icy blue death awaits: a blue ice crevasse.
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Kel eyes Fox.
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The Franz Josef Glacier from top-to-bottom. It’s shrank a bit from it’s hayday in the last iceage.
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Franz Josef was quite large and dirty, and we decided to book it out of there after watching a huge rock come rolling down the mountain (below the paying tour groups but above the free viewing zone).



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One Response to “Days 9-11: Hanz and Franz”

  1. JTR Says:

    The eulogy for the poor tourist who died the day before was touching, really. I thought your heckling him in the comments to the photos was an especially nice touch…bad karma…

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