Franz Josef Glacier is one of the famous sights of Westland Tai Poutini National Park. Like Fox Glacier to the south, it is unusual because it reaches West Coast rainforest near its end, and the huge cascade of ice is fringed by ferns and trees.
Listen to Philip Liner interviewing a guide at Franz Josef Glacier in 1987.
Transcript
[Sound of boots walking on gravel]
Interviewer: Well that's the sound of crunching boots on gravel. We are heading out towards the Franz Josef Glacier. It looks from where we are as if we could just about touch it from here, but nearly parked the van at the carpark there and we've got a bit of a walk I gather to get to it?
Guide: Yes, roughly about three miles up to the actual face of the glacier there.
Interviewer: I wonder if I realised what I'd let myself in for.
Guide: Yes, it actually looks very deceiving from where we actually are here. Believe me she's bigger than what actually meets the eye
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