Tourists pay guides to take them up to this glacier which is actually quite safe. The meltwater rivers are easy to spot and fairly predictable, there are no crevasses, it's not far from town .. Needless to say, we just walk up there. Also, tourists rent rifles on Svalbard, but they know nothing of gun safety. Groups of tourists where everyone has a rifle, bolt usually in so you can't know if they've got a bullet in the chamber, is a fairly regular thing to see .. It's illegal to carry them like that in town, but the tourists are too stupid / ignorant to understand.
I've met tourists who have gone to the north pole by plane. What the hell is the point of going up there by plane? Then it's just a chunk of ice.
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