This ice cave was one stemming from the tongue of a glacier flowing from Mount Erebus, one of the most powerful volcanoes of ...

It is a world cut off from our own by thick blankets of floating ice, but some scientists are taking the plunge to learn how these frozen depths are changing.

For decades, the Whittakers led park visitors on tours of the Paradise ice caves, carved by water flowing under the Paradise glacier. Suffused with blue light, those caves vanished in the 1990s when ...

There was already no distance between me and the ice. Light pierces the ancient blue ice of a glacier cave as I frame the textures against an opening in the cave. Sometimes a photogenic place can ...

McGregor leans against a wall of ice, holding against it a measuring device that shoots a beam of red laser light to the cave’s opposite wall. “A hundred-five” he calls out. It’s hard for ...

The frigid, winter weather has provided the rare opportunity to step inside and explore stunning caves carved under the ice. Melting water from the glacier creates the twisting tunnels as it ...

Hikers are flocking to Switzerland to see ice caves that are there for a limited time only. Never mind that they are extremely dangerous and potentially lethal, these ice caves on the Morteratsch ...