Franz Josef Ranges
Franz Josef Glacier is a huge draw on the South Island’s West coast. I teamed up with an American girl I met in Punakaiki to tackle a 1300m mountain called Alex Knob to get a higher (and cheaper) vantage point of the glacier than we’d get from a guided tour. The mount was shrouded in mist the whole time, so we didn’t see much of the glacier, but we still got some incredible views of the surrounding rainforest and mountains.
The lowlands west of the glacier
The lower three-quarters of the mountain is covered in temperate rainforest
As we looked out into the whiteout, this mountain ridge materialized and then disappeared again
More Franz Josef (and Punakaiki coast) pictures are here.
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