Hey yes we are still in Iceland but not for much longer.
Hey yes we are still in Iceland but not for much longer. 3 days to go and counting. Crazy last week here, it suddenly became winter, snow to 1000m, dark at 9:30 and freezing cold at night. We even saw the aurora borealis, very nice! The glacier is still melting as fast as it can, trying to destroy our access before we leave. But i think we might just make it. We have about 2m of ice left which mostly disappears when it rains, huge rock falls, massive ice collapses at the front and a brilliant cave right at the start, so we have something interesting to look at. So all in all, its been a very interesting week. There seems to be no campers in the area but people still turn up for the walks - given it is a lot less than there were but still a truck full at a time , mostly dependant on the weather.
Oh and search excitement when we found out that the two missing German mountaineers were missing on our glacier, though not from one of our walks. They were last seen heading up the glacier twenty days before they missed their flight home! The camp was found 500m from the end of our longest walk and they had even carried up a plastic box and 3 sets of pots... very strange. The area was searched for 1 week and with the heli flying over every 5 min it was very reminiscent of fox. They didn’t find them and it’s not surprising with the size of the crevasses they could have easily both been on a snow bridge without knowing it, why they didn’t leave any intensions, tell anyone where they were going or even better ask us if you could get up the mountain from that way (if they had asked we would have said “no, the crevasses are too big and it has been cut off for a while so don’t do it. Go this way”). I don’t know. What a waste!
Ah, now the important news. We are coming home baby! Yes we leave Iceland on the 9th of September and leave England on the 15th. We arrive in Auckland on the 17th and head down the Blenheim on the 19th. Where we start our 150th tour de south island, coming to a town near you!! Stay tuned and have your spare couch ready.
Oh home sweet home. Steak and cheese pies here we come and lashings of good cheep beer, mmmmmm beer!
Oh and search excitement when we found out that the two missing German mountaineers were missing on our glacier, though not from one of our walks. They were last seen heading up the glacier twenty days before they missed their flight home! The camp was found 500m from the end of our longest walk and they had even carried up a plastic box and 3 sets of pots... very strange. The area was searched for 1 week and with the heli flying over every 5 min it was very reminiscent of fox. They didn’t find them and it’s not surprising with the size of the crevasses they could have easily both been on a snow bridge without knowing it, why they didn’t leave any intensions, tell anyone where they were going or even better ask us if you could get up the mountain from that way (if they had asked we would have said “no, the crevasses are too big and it has been cut off for a while so don’t do it. Go this way”). I don’t know. What a waste!
Ah, now the important news. We are coming home baby! Yes we leave Iceland on the 9th of September and leave England on the 15th. We arrive in Auckland on the 17th and head down the Blenheim on the 19th. Where we start our 150th tour de south island, coming to a town near you!! Stay tuned and have your spare couch ready.
Oh home sweet home. Steak and cheese pies here we come and lashings of good cheep beer, mmmmmm beer!
posted by thekarenandbenshow at 6:55 AM
