Tag: glacier

An ice cave formed naturally on a high-altitude glacier in the Swiss Alps became accessible this week, to the delight of visitors who came to marvel at the huge blue vault of the “ice cathedral”. Changing size and shape from year to year, the cave has a rounded ceiling made of thick ice about 5 meters high and is 20 meters long. The site is accessible by foot in 15 minutes from the chairlift at Glacier 3000 above the resort of Les Diablerets, but at your own risk, organizers warned. In the last years … we had kind of an ... Read more

Photo Courtesy – REUTERS A huge iceberg has drifted close to a village in western Greenland, prompting a disaster in case it splits and the resulting wave swamps homes. The iceberg is looming over houses on a cape in the Innaarsuit village, but is grounded and did not move overnight, local media say. Local officials say they have never seen such a big iceberg before. Last year in northwestern Greenland, four people died when a landslide resulted in a tsunami that inundated a number of homes. That disaster is fresh in peoples’ minds, says glaciologist Anna Hogg at the University ... Read more