Well we booked a guide tour of the Franz Josef Glacier! So woke up bright and early to get to the departure office at 9.15am, got all kitted up in walking boots with spikes, jackets, hats, gloves, socks etc! Got to the public access part and had to trek for about 2.5kms to the actual glacier, our guide split everyone into 4 groups, we had a choice of going in group 1 which was the hardcore team who sped ahead, or down to group 4 who take it easy!...so matt ofcourse chooses group 1! So off we go group 1 starts to climb up the steepest and fastest moving glacier in the world, really steep steps which have been cut out into the glacier!Really fast pace for about 2 hours until we stopped for a bit of grub!By now my feet were killing due to severe blisters which are not pretty!:( but everyone is marching on, fit and healthy, whereas I'm keeping behind in last place, red cheeked, out of breath, not good, I think I almost died of unfitness!!:) But overall we trekked the whole glacier for 8 hours, very long and tiring day, my legs were in agony, matt was fine, I'm just unfit!haha!:) Got a chance to hack at some ice with our ice picks so it was worth it all for that!!:)

But to sum up, long hours, lots of walking all uphill on slippery ice, our guide was a bit crap but the glacier was too lush to care about that! I'm officially a "walker"!