Amazing Ice Caves
The images on this page were taken by Jason Gulley, a glaciologist studying the hydrology of glacial caves, in Alaska and Nepal.
Huge entrance on the Khumbu Glacier in Nepal. Note figure in red in distance. Scalloped walls indicate erosion by air currents.
Glacial caves are often entered through crevasses which have captured surface water.
Ice caves are very different from normal caves. They have a strange feeling about them, as though they are not from this planet, and one has just temporarily stepped into their world when spelunking their depths.
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