Once the parachute opens you fall slow enough to take in the landscape, preferably at sunset or in a beautiful spot like the fiordlands or at the Franz Josef glacier.

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The Franz Josef glacier on the west side of the Southern Alps of New Zealand advanced sharply during the period of the Little Ice Age, actually invading a rain forest at its maximum extent in the early 1700s.

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We'd taken off from near Franz Josef, a township of about 330 whose economy revolves around the glacier of the same name.

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