not too far because it gets dangerous quite quickly
I did a galacier walk on the Comumbia Icefield in Canada. The New Zelealand guide describing in detail how well glacier cravasses and sink-holes are concealed under a fragile crust of ice, the long length of time it'd take to rescue somebody who fell down one, and the very short length of time it'd take to expire from hypothermia down there. It made quite an impression.
A few years ago, I remember they found the frozen bodies of some WW1 soldiers in an alpine glacier - I assume it was in that area. Some paleo-anthropologists were jumping up and down with excitement, going all awesime, we has extra, more-recent, specimens to compare Ötzi the Iceman with, which I found very distasteful.
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Date: 2010-08-18 08:37 am (UTC)I did a galacier walk on the Comumbia Icefield in Canada. The New Zelealand guide describing in detail how well glacier cravasses and sink-holes are concealed under a fragile crust of ice, the long length of time it'd take to rescue somebody who fell down one, and the very short length of time it'd take to expire from hypothermia down there. It made quite an impression.
A few years ago, I remember they found the frozen bodies of some WW1 soldiers in an alpine glacier - I assume it was in that area. Some paleo-anthropologists were jumping up and down with excitement, going all awesime, we has extra, more-recent, specimens to compare Ötzi the Iceman with, which I found very distasteful.