Walked with a guided group up the spectacular Franz Joseph glacier today. Being in crampons and able to hack at the landscape around you with an ice-pick is such fun.
As part of the trek (which was about 6 hours on the ice) we went through a series of ice tunnels. The blue of the ice is intense and beautiful.
This is a Kea (mountain parrot) which greeted us on the way down. They are tame and intelligent (I saw one later trying to open the sunroof of a car with its beak).
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