Unless i have my days confused (which is quite likely) this makes it my 2nd blog in one week, wow, i'm excelling at this thing now. Since the last entry i have decided to rule out ever becoming a mountain explorer. The other day i spent 9hours on a vertical ascent of Franz Josef glacier, i quite liked wearing crampons and the views the hike afforded, i quite disliked being in the #1 group as this reqiured me to walk at a super-human pace (even for me), jump crev...

So the blog entries are not going to well so far, possibly because i've spent pretty much every day on a big green bus and every night in a library, yeah whatever. New Zealand (or NZ as i'm now allowed to call it) has been super busy and super fun and thankfully 1st impressions have drastically changed. We were welcomed in the traditional Maori style of sticking your tongue out, slapping your man boobs, grunting and dancing round with a big pointy stick and then ...