 Just all the ice and big, big ice blocks just in front of us! Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Oli. Over the past four years we have been on some epic adventures around the world. Now, after converting an old van into our new home on wheels, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin! We are still in the beautiful mountains of Austria and we parked our campervan last night in this sort of lay-by on a side street surrounded by forest and also right next to this nice river which I'm going to take you down to. There we go! That's really nice to camp next to a beautiful river like this, hey! And the sun's just coming up over the mountains and it looks like it's going to be a beautiful morning. So today we are going to be heading into the Huwtauen National Park which is the largest national park in Austria. It's the first national park in Austria. Also in this national park is the highest mountain in Austria and we're going to see this mountain just now! So the tallest mountain in Austria is called Grossglockner and we're heading up to a road called the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. And apparently it's one of the most beautiful panorama roads in Europe so it's going to be an absolutely amazing place to drive in our little red tornado. So the Hochaukmanstrasse is actually a toll road and we're about to enter right now. It's 37 euros 50 for a ticket to drive so it must be really spectacular for that price. They have an indoor parking place here where we just packed up red tornado safely. From here they have already pretty good views but we aren't satisfied with seeing these views from afar. So we are going to take a hike to get up close and personal down there. Davy's just cooking us up a hiking pack lunch of some eggs and some bread. Yummy! So we're not sure how long this hike is going to be so we're just taking lunch just in case. We have like vegan meat where we can put on our bread. This fake meat is so tasty. So we will have this one and egg on our bread. Goodbye red tornado! It's time to hit the trail. So this behind us is the Pasteur's glacier. It's the longest glacier in Austria and that down there is where we're going to hike so we can see it up close. So let's go! Lots of little cute fairy marmots. So we're going to try and listen out for them and see if we can... And they're so cute I really want to see them. They just know what they are. The marmots just sitting there on the side of the cliff. I usually look so cute. Oh my god. And then we can spot from here as well. Like four ibexes I think they are. That's so cool. Nature there is already here. That's unbelievable. Incredible landscape. Looks like we're walking on a different planet. So this mountain in Grossglockner behind us is absolutely massive. 3,798 meters above sea level. In Austria this is the highest mountain. It's really iconic. It's an iconic mountain. And right down there the Pasteur's glacier. 8.2 kilometers long. The longest glacier in Austria. And it looks so so impressive. Like a sort of waterfall draining out from the top of the mountain all in super slow motion. And you can see down here by the lake huge chunks of ice that have come from the glacier. Along the way here they're showing pictures of how the glacier used to look from like the 1980s until now. And I can tell you it's not looking good. It's crazy even in 1995 here this one. Even then the glacier was looking quite extensive and now look. Is that global warming? What do you think? You can write in the comments what you think. But yeah it's drastically been reduced over the last 40 years in the pictures that we've seen. I've never been in a place like this before in my life. It's just like huge chunks of ice sitting in the water. It's all dripping and melting away into the lake. Wow it's like being in the Arctic or something. So cool. I don't look it. Wow we're getting closer to the glacier and we're just coming up to the Glacier River which is coming off of the meltwater. Look at that. Look how much water is melting from this glacier every second. It's actually a surprise that there's any left. The glacier is coming up right in front of us. Unbelievable. It gets more and more pretty and seriously it's so cool. It's so cool. Look at that it's just a wall of ice right in front of us. That is so awesome. I can feel the coolness coming from it. I can feel the icy chill. Oh my god. Wow. So all the ice and big big ice blocks just in front of us. We are standing right up at the face of the largest glacier in Austria. I think this is the prettiest place I've ever been in my life. Yeah really you can imagine that you're in the middle of like Antarctica or something here. It's unbelievable. That is an absolute ice wonderland. And this whole wall is like moving. It's slowly slowly moving and melting into the valley. Now we have to say goodbye to an unbelievable place. Goodbye beautiful place. But honestly this place is one of the most incredible places I've ever been. Really. We've been on the tops of volcanoes. We've been to some crazy places. But this is really really special. Okay it feels like it's just starting to rain. So we've got to try and make a move back. And we've got to go all the way up to there to the car park where the car is. The glacier is already far behind. Wow that was so hard coming up actually. I think it was like 400 450 meter elevation. Super tough really super tough. That was exhausting. Yeah we're back at the visitor's center. Back at the car park where red tornado is parked. So we're going to go back into red tornado. We're going to hit the hawker Alpenstraza again. And complete the rest of this amazing panorama road. Yes. Oh yeah. Back where it all started. So we have to find a place now. Where we can camp for the night. So we're going to check on eye overlander and park for night. And see what places we can find around the area. Oh my god I can smell the car's brakes. That was some crazy downhill that we did. We descended like a thousand meters in like 10 minutes. But this is the place that we will be camping tonight. It's actually right next to the the toll road entrance. Which is just there. And yeah there's a little grass parking area here. With some amazing mountain views around. So this is where we're going to be staying. We will have a very very good night tonight here. So I think it's time to cook up some dinner. Tonight we will make a coconut curry with some vegetables. And some bread. And look at all these tasty ingredients. Yes. Lots of spices. Some of this one. Full of spices. So there we have our beautiful coconut curry with some bread. It's a beautiful meal in a beautiful landscape. I was really blown away by the landscape of Austria. And this national park the Hohe Tower National Park. Wow absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. It was so worth it to come and to see the glacier which is eight kms long. And we touched the glacier. We actually went and touched it. Yeah it was incredible. It was incredible. We really hope that you enjoyed the episode. And enjoyed coming along on our alpine adventure with us today. If you did please give the video a thumbs up. And don't forget to subscribe to the channel. We will see you next time. If you enjoyed watching this video you would help us a lot by subscribing to the channel by clicking here. Thanks so much for watching guys we will see you next time.