Comments on: Glacier Caves

Glacier Caves

Rinku — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:59:28 -0800

"I figured I'd explore for a bit and before I knew it I was 50 yards within a huge cave gazing at the most beautiful, otherworldly sight I had ever laid eyes on," he tells us. "It was like stepping into Superman's lair and every changing shade of blue lured me deeper and deeper." Inside Glacier Caves.

The photographer, Eric Guth, has a rather flash-heavy website here, with a plethora of arctic and antarctic images.

By: bl1nk

bl1nk — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:15:57 -0800

my girlfriend and I went on a one-day trek on the Viedma Glacier while we were in Patagonia and one of our regrets was that our guides didn't get a chance to take us in to a glacier cave. The erosive forces on a glacier (as well as additive forces from snowfall) are indeed fairly dynamic, so terrain features tend to change from day to day or week to week. A cave that you remembered being there a few days ago may be a crevasse today. Still, the ice really was that magical shade of blue where ever we walked. Another odd bit about glacier trekking is that because the terrain is so volatile, there weren't really 'trails' per se. We just kind of wandered across the surface of the glacier, picking whatever route seemed best. It took a bit to get used to when one is sort of raised on a near dogmatic obedience to "Leave No Trace" hiking principles and always sticking to a path whenever it presents itself.

By: jmnugent

jmnugent — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:22:21 -0800

Damn. From the tagline, i thought this was gonna be about Minecraft.

By: kozad

kozad — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:33:32 -0800

Blue is beautiful.

By: TooFewShoes

TooFewShoes — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:34:27 -0800

Wow. That is just unbelievably stunning.

By: Paragon

Paragon — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:35:06 -0800

Forget Superman, this is an advance still from the set of At the Mountains of Madness.

By: mexican

mexican — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:40:38 -0800

glacier caves are crazy dangerous. large collapses often happen several times a week and sometimes multiple times per day. as much as i'd like to tour one, i like the prospect of being crushed under a literal mountain of ice less. i could look at pictures of them all day, though.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:47:29 -0800

The colour Blue in the glacial ice cave I stumbled upon remains one of my most exquisite memories. It was simply beyond. Beyond blue. Beyond colour and ice. Mind-blowing.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:28:40 -0800

I'd say that I would like to spend my life in there, but I'll bet that if you went there just once, you would never really leave.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 18:45:24 -0800

Wow, wow, wow.

By: Rora

Rora — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:23:52 -0800

How beautiful, they're like frozen waves. My first thought came out as "How beautiful, it's like frozen water," which... DURR.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:25:51 -0800

More Glacier Caves.

By: JohnnyGunn

JohnnyGunn — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:29:53 -0800

Forgive my ignorance, but this is the first I even heard about glacial caves which in and of itself is a very very cool (no pun intended) concept. Then to see the amazingly beautiful pictures is beyond fantastic. Thank you for this post, for today I truly learned something new and something worthwhile.

By: Rinku

Rinku — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:55:02 -0800

Cool link, homunculus. I looked for supplemental material but couldn't find much.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:25:58 -0800

Very nice pictures. At first I was like "man why does the guy have to be in them" but then I was like god damn I would want to be, too. And then there are similar pictures without him in, so I was mollified.

By: obiwanwasabi

obiwanwasabi — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:14:48 -0800

It was like stepping into Superman's lair Hey, what does this button dooOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo....

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:28:24 -0800

Ötzi. Just sayin. (What mexican said.)

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:26:40 -0800

Glaive Cave

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:06:42 -0800

THis is great!

By: euphorb

euphorb — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:00:49 -0800

If you liked these images as I did, you would probably also like the IMAX film Journey Into Amazing Caves available on Netflix.

By: FatherDagon

FatherDagon — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:55:21 -0800

Glaive Cave Halberd Hills? Voulge Valley? Guisarme Grotto?