The high mountain feeding snow to the Fox Glacier neve, from the cirque below it, is Mt Tasman.
The peak to the right (South) of Tasman is Mt Cook, but it is on a separate ridge and does not contribute snow to Fox Glacier. Paul Maggs photograph, 1995.
This view, from higher still, is by one of the most famous of New Zealand's landscape photographers, Andris Apse. Press on the picture to go to his web site.
Note how the north wall (closest) of Fox Valley has been rounded and ground smooth. This must have happened when the glacier was much bigger and is really only obvious from the air. At ground level, the subsequent erosion by streams obscures this feature.
Fox Glacier from the top, showing the compacted snow, now ice, feeding it and the fascinating longitudinal furrow produced as the glacier funnels down into the valley, leading to the distant West Coast. This ice field, further to the North (right) is divided by a range of jagged peaks (seen in the Aspe picture) and beyond them a Northern component feeds the Franz Josef glacier. Chancellor Dome lies to the right at the top of the glacier.
John Wattie photograph, March 2005.
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