Foxes Glacier Melts

We went for a walk on Fox's Glacier this afternoon.  The glacier is a living thing which moves relatively quickly at a metre per day with constant slides of rock around the edges as the ice melts.

The glacier may also be dying.  100 years ago, the glacier filled the space up to nearly the full eight of the cliffs in the first photograph.  Until four years ago it was to the height of the tree line in the second photo, all of which is just a bit disconcerting.  Why it melted may be in dispute, but there is no question that the scale of climate change is significant.