"Ice Cathedral" in Swiss Alps offers visitors unique show
An ice cave, which forms naturally on a high-altitude glacier in the Swiss Alps, was accessible on Thursday to the delight of nature lovers and photographers keen to enter the "Ice Cathedral", which varies each year.
The bluish cave, with a rounded ceiling made of thick ice about 5 metres high, is about 20 metres long.
The "unique show" from inside the tunnel 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 said.
"It's the first time we indicate it and open it officially. The last years, since three or four years, we had kind of an ice cave but it was different, it was more steep. And this year it looks like an ice cathedral, so it's really beautiful," Bernhard Tschannen, CEO of Glacier 3000, told Reuters inside the cave.
The natural cave, also known as "The Mill," forms through a siphon effect. Each spring and summer, the cavity fills with water from the snow melt, forming a lake. In autumn, the plug disappears and the water drains, leaving the cave.
"It's magnificent, but even that isn't the right word. I've never seen anything like it, almost as if it's not of this world in fact. It's magnificent, I can only recommend it if you have the chance to go," Helen Tromp, a Dutch woman living nearby, said after visiting.
Brice Rozes, touring the site on his day off, said: "It's very impressive. The vault is incredible. Standing beneath it, you can just imagine the weight above. It's beautiful."
(Source: Reuters)
Ukraine launches drone strikes on Russia's energy sites
US Senate passes multibillion-dollar aid package for Israel amid Gaza war
Russia warns of direct confrontation with West over Ukraine
VIDEO | Press TV's news headlines
US troopers crack down on pro-Palestinian protests at University of Texas
VIDEO | German warship departs Red Sea as EU 'naval mission' fails
VIDEO | Palestinians inspect rubble of destroyed building in Rafah
Yemeni forces strike US, Israeli vessels in fresh pro-Palestinian operations
‘Say no to Biden’: US college being pressed not to endorse genocide
VIDEO | UN: Alarming food insecurity crisis grips Afghanistan
VIDEO | Stuck in quagmire
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
