Rob Roy Glacier Track
Alpine valley walk over a swing bridge to a lookout facing a hanging glacier and tumbling waterfalls.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Rob Roy Glacier Track, a day trip from Queenstown in Mount Aspiring National Park, is about the swing bridge over the West Matukituki at its start, not the ice at its end. It follows a crossing first strung up in nineteen seventy-eight, the helicopter-assisted rebuild of two thousand thirteen, and the uneasy arithmetic between how many people a span may hold and how many turn up each summer. Best heard at the near bank, before you step onto the deck.
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