A crevasse, on the Franz Josef glacier

See. I remembered quite alot of my glaciation work, spotting the moraine, terminal face, cravasses etc. Mr O'Neill and Miss Gaskell would be so proud!! (A-level Geog teachers).

An absolutely amazing experience, and surprisingly not that hard. Well the walking wasn't. The crawling through some of the ice caves was a little tight. We went up on a 3/4 day trip, which was then split into 2 groups. Adventurous and boring. We chose the former and promptly were led through the tiny ice caves!



The last sign we passed before getting to the ice. Doesn't exactly fill you with confidence!



Our guide decending into one of the caves on the glacier. The colours were amazing, with the blue ice becoming even more intense as we went further up the glacier. even though it was overcast and started to rain towards the end of the time on the ice. (Blue ice is ice that has been under pressure in the centre of the glacier and all the air has been pushed out of it, which means it works as a prism)

Some stats

Number of hours on the ice - 4
Number of ice caves crawled through - 5
Number of crevasses passed through - lost count!
Length of the glacier - 11 km (we only went about 1.5 km up from the terminal face)