Check one off of the bucket list: climb Fox Glacier, on the Western edge of New Zealand’s South Island
So what exactly is a glacier? It’s this giant block of ice that’s slowly sliding down a mountain, carving out a path through the valley. The iceberg gets something like 10 meters of rain per year, which freezes and adds to the iceberg’s mass – as the iceberg grinds its way down the mountain, it continues to melt, so the iceberg shrinks and expands depending on rainfall and temperature.
