I broke my arm yesterday on the glacier hike.

The good news:
The glacier helicopter Tour was amazing. It was a lot more difficult than I expected. The tour guide plus 10 tourist set out for a 3 hour tour.  a 3 hour tour.
I guess I expected more snow and not pure ice. It's the top of a huge mountain!  In Colorado we have Mountains too and they are covered in snow, not solid ice. Anyway, the guide spends the entire time chopping the ice into steps and paths for us to walk on. He was very impressive. The we wear special boots with "cramp-on" or huge cleats/Yak Tracks.  The guide tells you to stay on his path and dig in your cramp-on into the ice.

As you can see with the pictures, the scenery is incredible. we decided that this was one of our top ten 'best things we have ever done'. We walked up to the top of the glacier where there was a water fall (note the rainbow ). We walked through crevices and ice tunnels and ledges and all kinds of cool ice sculptures. It was a lot of climbing. Highly recommend this tour!

Bad news:
So we are 1/2 done and start hiking down the glacier. It's much harder walking down ice.  So I'm carefully hiking down the ice steps, minding my own business, when my cramp-on sticks in the Ice and I go falling head first down into a crevice!  Sam is right behind me and sees me fall but can't reach me. I fall on my hand/arm to brace myself and flipped over to stop myself from falling further into the hole--which has water at the bottom of it. I only fell about 5 feet down but could have gone farther down. Sam reached down and pulled me up from under my arms.

I walked a while longer because I felt like a klutz in front of the group.  I thought my wrist was broken because I couldn't move my lower arm. But we had to climb down using ropes and I was hanging onto Sam so the guide said we were both going to fall down a crevice. The guide decided I needed helicopter evacuation and summoned my own private helicopter. It was pretty cool. They landed right next to us after sending the rest of the group Down with another guide. I sat next to the pilot with Sam in the back and it was amazing. Much better than the ride there.

The rest is Boring ER stuff, transfer to the only hospital 2 hours away ( where's that helicopter now?) X-rays, fractured Radius (clean complete break but not displaced), open topped cast done because of swelling. I have to go back in 7 days for a complete cast.

So would we do it again?  Yeah, Baby!