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Rescue teams at the scene after an ice cave partially collapsed, at the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier, in southeastern Iceland. - Vilhelm Gunnarsson/STOD2/AP
A group of tourists had been visiting the Breidamerkurjökull glacier when an ice cave collapsed. A tourist has died and a further two are missing after an accident at an ice cave in southern Iceland.
The rescue operation began around 3 p.m. local time on Sunday when authorities received reports that an ice cave had collapsed at the Breidamerkurjokull glacier in southeastern Iceland.
The Paradise Ice Caves collapsed and vanished in the 1990s, and the lower lobe of the glacier which once contained the caves has also vanished entirely between 2004 and 2006. Glacier caves may be used by glaciologists to gain access to the interior of glaciers. The study of glacier caves themselves is sometimes called "glaciospeleology".
These glacier caves were visited and documented at least as early as 1908. [1] They have a varied natural history, as their size and even existence has changed over time, from a maximum surveyed length of 13.25 kilometers in 1978, to not existing at all during both the 1940s and 1990s [ 2 ] due to glacial recession .
Glacier caves are formed by melting ice and flowing water within and under glaciers. The cavities are influenced by the very slow flow of the ice, which tends to collapse the caves again. Glacier caves are sometimes misidentified as "ice caves", though this latter term is properly reserved for bedrock caves that contain year-round ice formations.
Local police said Sunday a group of 25 tourists from several countries was exploring an ice cave at the Breidamerkurjokull glacier in southeastern Iceland when the incident occurred shortly before ...
The Sandy Glacier Caves are a system of glacier caves within the ice of Sandy Glacier on Mount Hood, Oregon. They are thought to be the largest glacier caves in the lower 48 states of the United States. [1] Surveys done in 2011 and 2012 have measured the system at over 1 mile in length or about 7,000 feet. [2]