Glacier Rubble Moving To Sea

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 1

Glacier Rubble Moving To Sea

(New tealand Prate Auociatlon) GREYMOUTH, Dec. 20. The 10-mile Waiho river from the Franz Josef Glacier to the Tasman Sea still carries a heavy volume of ice, six feet high in parts.

Huge pinnacles of ice can be seen slowly moving to the Tasman Sea, or breaking and crushing with the movement of the river. The ice is expected to take about three weeks to melt or be carried out to see. The rood from the Main South highway to the glacier was cleared today of ice and rubble brought down from the glacier. The clearing of the road enabled Mrs B. M. Chambers, of Auckland, and her three children to return to the highway. They had been camping overnight at the glacier end of the road on Saturday and had been trapped by the ice fall. Mrs Chambers and her children had adequate food and decided to remain with

their car and tent until the rood was reopened. Their tent was not far from a waterfall and they thought the noise they beard overnight was heavy rain. It was not until Mrs Chambers and her family were about to return to the highway on Sunday morning that they discovered that there had been a massive ice fall. The road was blocked by huge ice blocks and rubble eight or 10 feet high.