A GIANT ICE-FALL.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11987, 13 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

A GIANT ICE-FALL.

When Dr Bell, Government Geologist, was engaged in meteorological investigation in the Southern Alps, he discovered and camped within sight of a marvellous ice-fall on the Douglas glacier, on tbe western face of Mount Sefton. At one point tbe great glacier found, or bad worn, a valley which ended abruptly in a precipice 4000ft high, over which enormous masses of ice fall regularly every two minutes, night and day, the ice .being forced over the edge by the steady pressure of the glacier behind. Dr Bell and his party, camping two miles away, could not make each other heard continuously on account of the deafening orash. The sight of the toppling ice-field was exhilarating as the sound was deafening. The great Douglas icefall will count in future among the wonders of the Southern Alps.