True South Flights confirmed with us that weather would allow them to pick us up again later that day, and they flew us to Mt Cook as the clouds were lifting:
hard to tell that this is all a glacier with the dirt on top
we got nice crampons to walk on the ice
this is the edge of the glacier that melts into a lake, with a few visible icebergs
I tried to take a souvenir home, but somehow it didn't quite make it
that's what the glacier actually looks like at the point it breaks into icebergs