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We did a circular hike along the Icefjord. To start it's a long hike up through a canyon, this lake was just over the other side 
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The first view of the ice - spectacular
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The people in the foreground provide some scale
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The ice floats down very slowly from the glacier at the end, 45km from the mouth
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It's the most productive glacier outside of Antarctica
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It was about 12° in the sun - hiking was hot work
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The fjord is about 6km wide
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The water is completely still as the ice dampens any waves, the main sound is the occasional cracking of ice
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Looking out towards the huge icebergs at the mouth
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We came back when it was foggy the next day. I happened to take a photo of this iceberg, about 5m tall above water, which a few minutes afterwards suddenly rotated about 30° creating some decent waves. When the largest ones rotate they create a tsunami! 
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The boat coming in to pick us up for the trip to Eqi Glacier
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A huge iceberg in Disko Bay
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This whale was about half way up the coast to the glacier - see the video Zip took here
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The boat passed lots of waterfalls
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It was a two-and-a-half hour trip each way, and absolutely freezing outside
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Approaching the glacier - the boat hit plenty of ice
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Eqi Glacier calves relatively small chunks of ice every ten minutes or so, which is unusual and is why boats can get near, most glaciers calve less frequently with much larger icebergs - the resulting waves are very dangerous 
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The glacier is about 170m high, with another 30m resting on the rock below the water, and is about three miles wide. We saw lots of ice fall off of it 
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The marks on the cliffs show the maximum recent extent of the glacier
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The boat spent about an hour within 1,000m of the glacier
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