Franz Josef Glacier Hiking

Rich and I were both really looking forward to our heli-hike experience on the Franz Josef glacier. When the morning arrived we stepped out of our hostel and looked up at the glacier, with bright blue skies and barely a breath of wind, we couldn’t have picked a better day for our glacier adventure. “Our […]

Majestic Mount Cook

Imagine clear blue skies with a cool morning breeze passing over a huge expanse of water, with snow covered mountains reaching up into the sky and their reflection reaching down into a lake. This was our morning view. The sight of the Southern Alps mountain range, with Mount Cook soaring three thousand seven hundred and twenty four metres […]