"ICEBERG dead ahead." Once a feared encounter on the high seas, tourists now clamber to see these mighty menaces.
With that alert from the bridge, passengers abandon their champagne and hors d'oeuvres and scramble like startled children from the dining room, nearly knocking our waistcoated stewards over in the rush.
Their unseemly haste is not, however, to grab lifejackets and run to the muster stations, but to fetch binoculars and cameras to observe our first sighting of a massive iceberg as we approach the southern tip of the huge island of Greenland from the east aboard the modern French-flagged expedition cruiser Le Boreal.
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