Hooker Glacier Pan

So maybe this doesn't look like a panorama, but Jenny actually took 3 pictures vertically to get this one. Consequently it shows a much wider-angle view than she or I could have taken in a single frame with either of our cameras. The vista was so wide that no panorama can truly convey the drama of it.

The image shows Hooker Glacier below Mt. Cook on the far left and the large moraine dam and lake below it. The lake foms the river to the right that feeds into Lake Pukaki several kilometers to the south. The grayer water is where it is stirred up from the glacier feeding it under the dam and from the stream flowing in from the lake further above the dam. The turqouise areas are where the water is more calm and settled. The ice of the glacier is black from sediments further up the valley.