Ice Trekking

As part of our amazing day at the Moreno Glacier we went ice trekking. We crossed the lake by boat and walked through the forest right up to the side of the glacier. There we attached crampons to our shoes. We were then marched single file across the glacier - don't step off the path or you might fall into a newly formed crevice. Now it all sounds very adventurous and it was, but this was sort of the Sydney Harbour Bridge of tours, all around us hundreds of other people were following little ant trails across the ice as well. But never the less it was amazing.
The ice was not smooth and soft like snow, but crunchy and hard like it had just come out of an ice crusher. It glittered and sparkled and hurt if you fell over. All around there was the tinkling sound of melting ice running through cracks and crevices, pools and riverlets of intensely blue water.  The ice was like sand dunes, towering over us and carved into odd shapes by the wind.
As we crunched into the final valley there was a little bar set up, and we were served whisky on the rocks, these rocks, freshly hacked from the glacier, just happened to be over 400yrs old. The one time the ice is older than the whisky as our guide said.