FOX GLACIER & FRANZ JOSEF GLACIER

Our first ever helicopter flight today.

The vast Southern Alps boast two of the most accessible glaciers in the world.  We choose to visit the mighty Fox Glacier.  Soaring at eye level against the west face of Mount Cook is an amazing experience.  The scenic wonder and sheer scale and majesty of the the mountains really does take your breath away.

We even get to land on a snowfield.

Eventually though we have to come down the mountain ... but look at the view.

After a lunch stop at beautiful Lake Matheson

we take a walk as close as we can to the base of the Franz Josef Glacier.

The awesome beauty of this place really does leave you speechless.  A spectacular, never to be forgotten experience.