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This week in our English reader, we read about mountain climbers and ice climbing. It reminded me of a day I spent ice climbing the Fox Glacier in the south island of New Zealand. As you walk up to the glacier you get a sense of how the mountains on either side were formed. The glacier has crept through making the valley millimetre by millimetre over millions of years. You can see the stones and pebbles that were at the bottom of the glacier, scratching through the earth. The "ice-fields" are huge, stretching for kilometres in each direction. Entry is only permitted with guides as you can easily fall into a crevice and get injured or die. We had to wear hard hats, harnesses, cramp-ons (on our boots) and carried ice-picks for climbing. Watch the slide show below to see my climbing adventure! Read about the Fox Glacier on the NZ Department of Conservation website here
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5/6/2022 09:05:21
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11/8/2023 11:39:14
We had to wear hard hats, harnesses, cramp-ons (on our boots) and carried ice-picks for climbing. Watch the slide show below to see my climbing adventure!
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28/2/2024 15:39:10
A journey like this one is what I need. My life has been pretty boring for the past couple of days, so I could really use something new in my life. I know that it is too early for me to say it, but I really want to go and retire. I mean, all the work that I do is not really making me grow. I want to go and do things that will actually make me a better version of myself.
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