ice caving - the world inside the glacier

 

the stories about amazing ice caves from the "old" students fascinated me all the time.

So I went on the glaciers behind our barracks and searched for every kind of hole which disappears inside the glacier and might be an entry to such a cave.

 

I found 2 on Larsbreen and 3 on Longyearbreen...and with each ice cave another fascinating world inside the glaciers.

Soon, the ice caves became famous again, and the groups who wanted to see them became large

headlamps and helmets became rare, and a new hobby for UNIS students were found :)

here the entry of the moraine cave on Longyearbreen

 

Sometimes the caves ended as deep holes with water on the bottom

Sometimes we needed to climb inside

And sometimes we needed to squeeze

but every cave was unique

even so, some of them didn't look like caves

And some were more like a crevass