WOW. That's about all that can be said about this most awesome adventure. Emma, Erich, and some random guy that actually went to highschool with Emma were the only ones in this wicked adventure to Steinglacier in the Alps. The drive up the mountain took us to where the glacier used to be a few decades ago (don't get us started on global warming) and then it was an hour hike through water, tundra scrub, and snow drifts waist deep in places. The hike took us to approximately 2200 meters above sea level
, where we stopped for a bite to eat (the picture above was the view out) while our overworked guide shovelled snow off the glacier for us to climb. The climbing started with a rappel down. We were told in school not to run with scissors but nobody told us not to jump down cliffs wearing spikes and holding sharp axes. 
which of course is going to cause an accident.
Just kidding , seriously nobody got hurt well not really. Emma of course is much more graceful at falling down the glacier (i know it's a bit hard to tell, but these pictures are looking straight down).
Once the falling part is over, the climbing part starts.
That is until we accidently fell into the crack in the galcier... help help i'm stuck in the hole
Sherpa emma to the rescue!
So yeah, there are a tonne more pictures for us to show you, but this was so awesome, we climbed for about 4 hours which was pretty exhausting in both soft ice and very hard ice. We would definitely recommend this adventure to absolutely anybody.
5 comments:
I NEED TO DO THIS!!
And Emma, was it hard to wear those gloves with such a large rock on your finger? hmmmm?
Red
Erich, care to explain "rock" reference made by Red?
Dad
Graham, you are a big shit disturber, you know that? Nobody panic... the biggest news we have is that Emma is no longer a vegetarian.
WHAT!!!?????EMMA!!!!!I hope your foray back over to the dark side went well - was it the wiener schnitzel that made you weak? Erich, care to explain how this happened? Looks like you have some explaining to do.
xxxxoooooM+P
I think it is most likely that G is simply trying to get something going to distract us all from some news that he has to tell us when we get back and is nervous that it is so sudden.
And Erich, tell us that you weren't at all suspicious that an old flame of Emma's (or did she forget to mention that to you) just happens to be the only other person on your ice climbing expedition in some remote part of Switzerland... hmmmmm?
And Emma - since when did you start the sailor talk? The little girl I raised so carefully was never exposed to that! Erichhhhhh????
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