I had never seen icebergs before until today. What is the official size of an iceberg? There were bergs as big as houses and as big as your hand. As the Tasman glacier recedes it has formed a lake. The terminal moraine forms a wall and holds in the water. The smaller bergs were on the other side of the exit stream so I couldn't reach them. As I look out the window here from the Hermitage, Mt Cook is looming large. I was here some 40 yar ago and was getting ready to climb up to the Copeland Pass. We hired guides, who gave us crampons and ice axes and we clawed our way to the pass. It was fairly daunting when they turned back and said we just had to go down there and we would find the track to the West Coast.
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