Icefall Drama: How a Glacier's Collapse Nearly Left Us Stranded

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Today we left our cute little anchorage.

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To visit our glacier, not just with our mothership but with our dingy, which means we can get much closer than our mothership.

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After 6 hours motoring

We get ready to leave with our dingy to visit the glacier.

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Just to get a perspective the glacier is about 100 meters tall. Believe it or not but we sat there speechless for about 10 minutes

After hearing a very loud crack we knew where it come from

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Do you notice the crack is much larger than 5 minutes before.

Well we already knew that any minute this 60m in length piece of ice will fall, so of course we decided that going on shore would be the safest and best experience to see it break off.

Which was dumb of us to do......

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Pretty sure you can see what happened here

Now you might think WOW this is amazing, but we got too excited that we forgot about our dingy which is our only way to get back to our mothership unless you want to walk though bear infested forests.

Here is the real problem when that Massive piece of ice fell, it created a mini-tsunami which then went right over our dingy....

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You can see our dingy right above this text. After this we run down to inspect the damage....

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Seeing our only way back home in this state, is not funny, after draining all the water we carried the dingy and left as fast as possible.

In end this, we can only learn from this mistake and maybe all of you also can.

Thanks for reading, see you all soon.

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