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3 around Mount Cook NZ.


Iain Emms

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Many years ago, when I was in the RAAF, we were on the way to Antartica in a C-130 Herc, flying, via a planned Christchurch overnight stopover. This stop over became longer. Each day, the USAF gave a weather briefing and if it was bad at our destination on the ice, we had to delay another 24 hours as there was a point of no return. After 3 days of this, our Herc crew said they needed to run the engines, so they planned an anti-clockwise trip around the South Island. We hoped in, and after takeoff the loadie opened the back ramp and we began the low-level trip. As a photographer, I spent most of the time sitting on the back ramp, feet over the edge, snaping away.

Relevant to your screen captures, after Greymouth, we flew low-level, tracking from the coast, up the Franz Josef Glacier (spectacular) keeping a look out for tourist helos, over the top, around Mt Cook and back down the Fox Glacier to the coast. It took about 2 hours to circumnavigate the South Island. Very memorable.

 

Your shots certainly capture the view in that area.

 

Aussie

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