Treasure Island Ice Cave

Some of you may already have seen pictures from last winter's ice cave: it's the cave with the distinctive "window" to the right above the e...
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Some of you may already have seen pictures from last winter's ice cave: it's the cave with the distinctive "window" to the right above the entrance. This year the cave was completely different: the entrance is now from the other side, the former end of the cave. The guides have struck for steps into the ice, which are secured with a hand rope. It follows a passage of still considerable length. Then the ceiling has collapsed, ice blocks of considerable size blocking the way to the earlier entrance, which no longer exists in this form.
Even harder it has hit the neighboring Lightroom Ice Cave: only an arch of ice is left from that cave, that arch lies in the area of the former end of the cave. The last year's entrance was about 50 to 60 meters below this point - in between the glacier has completely disappeared over the summer!
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