And the streams that wash down from the glacier-capped peaks carry a highly prized stone, a hard, translucent, green rock that the Maori carved into jewelry and blades, for both tools and weapons.

We spent much of our first day walking beside the Dudh Kosi, known as the “river of milk” because glacier meltwater has turned it a lovely milky green colour.

Of the green of tundra, glacier ashen the neuter color with ice and snow and brunet form bright contrast, build those who give a kind of lasting and wide extensive is calm.