Full Day on Franz Josef glacier

The highlight of today was a full day hike on the Franz Josef glacier. As we push further south, the sense of scale among the landscapes is totally lost. It probably doesn't help that there are generally no houses, roads, or other man-made objects in sight leading your best reference to be hunting the horizon for a group of people. The hike on the glacier was a very unique opportunity of slithering through crevasses and climbing over ridges. The blue color of the ice is very different than what you'd have in your drinking glass and starts to take a similar color in the glacial pools thanks to the rock sediment (aka glacial flour) that gets ground up and washed downstream with the ice.

Franz Josef photos