To Franz Joseph glacier by helicopter; it's a big glacier quite close to the coast but really much the same as alpine glaciers. It's very hard to get the scale of the snow field until you land and see the other helicopters which seem to be a mile away, but from the air the whole thing looks the size of a couple of football pitches.
From there round a few corners to the Fox Glacier on foot; a gentle stroll up the glaciated valley up which it is rapidly retreating. Great chunks of ice fall off it all the time, maybe the size of a car every five minutes. Again very hard to get the scale of the thing.
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