Photo of the Day 372

Ice Hikers, South Islands, New Zealand, 2002

Photograph by David McLain

Hikers negotiate a crevasse on Franz Josef Glacier in South Island, New Zealand. This highly accessible river of ice begins in the peaks of the Southern Alps, but flows some 8,000 vertical feet (2,400 vertical meters) into the lush rain forest of New Zealand's Westlands National Park.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Action New Zealand: 12 Days and 12 Adventures on the South Island," May/June 2002, National Geographic Traveler magazine)