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April 30, 2008
Like Mt Cook or Milford Sound the Franz Josef Glacier is another iconic site for international tourists. The glacier is easily accessible by foot through walking up the Waiho River bed. Many view the glacier and the Fox Glacier by helicopter, whilst others walk up the glacier in a group with with a guide. The high tourist numbers indicate how much naturalness as wilderness has become commodified, as well as a powerful ideological force.
The glacier's rockface gave me the chance to shift to a more abstract style:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, Franz Josef Glacier, 2008
I kept on recalling the images of waterfalls produced by Colin McCahon as I slowly slowly walked back down the river that runs off the Franz Josef Glacier in the Southern Alps.
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