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Trip around the world in 63 days, 2003
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The Franz Jozef Glacier is the next target. On no place on earth glaciers descend lower on these latitudes. The reason is just that it rains here 700 cm a year, 10 times as much in rainy Holland. The deposits of snow high on the mountains are that huge that the glacier descends to 300 meter above sea level. We want to climb the glacier and climb over fences with “no entry”, “danger” and “very dangerous”. After the “extremely dangerous” sign we approach the glacier. The tongue is covered with gravel and rock