Hike on Glacier

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Did you ever dream of walking on water? You can do just that when you hike on one of the world’s great glaciers, frozen water that is thousands of years old. Glacier hiking (or trekking) is available in many corners of the world. In Norway, The Svartisen Glacier, Nigardsbreen Glacier, and Juklavassbreen Glacier all offer guided hikes over centuries old blue ice. The State of Alaska in the U.S.A. offers the Matanuska Glacier, the Mendenhall Glacier and the Root Glacier with close up views of crevasses, seracs and unique ice formations as an integral part of what is for many participants a unique, once in a lifetime experience. Trekking is also popular in Los Glaciares National Park and the Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia, Argentina where the Cerro-Torre and Fitzroy Peaks tower above the frozen surface. Fox Glacier and the Franz Josef Glaciers on the South Island of New Zealand is another favored place for Glacier Hikes. Aptly named Glacier National Park in Montana, U.S.A. provides numerous opportunities. Although the hiking trails are frozen virtually all of the hikes are summertime adventures. Most tour operators provide mountaineering crampons for your boots, trekking poles and helmets. The crampons allow for easy walking on steeply inclined hillsides thickly covered in ages old ice. Glacier trekkers have been known to evolve into ice climbers. Consider that when trekking on the glacier it is constantly moving as the underlying ice melts. The landscape constantly changes and is never the same twice.

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