Ice Ice Baby

From a distance, the Franz Josef Glacier looks like a frozen river flowing through the valley. This glacier has carved its way through the rainforest and unlike most glaciers, it is advancing. The glacier is nestled between the coast and the Southern Alps and is easily accessible by foot.

Along with our guide and a handful of others, we climbed up the glacier and wound our way through crevasses, some less than 2 feet wide and more than 20 feet deep. The labyrinth of crevasses was much like walking in between frozen waves.

Crayola doesn't come close to mimicking the true color of ice blue, a color that glows from the towering blocks of ice.