Each year, locals dig a walkable ice cave, or ice "grotto," directly into the glacier's deep blue ice. Even better, the ice grotto is only a short distance from the Chamonix train station via a ...

In an ice cave, the distance between you and the rich blue ice around you vanishes. I walked into one such cave in southern Iceland, delicately through a tunnel of circular ice arches. They ...

Among the most beautiful places in the world, you’ll find black-sand beaches and blue ice caves, granite peaks and glacial ice, the City of Light and a city carved in stone. They include both ...

From remote, wild valleys to rushing waterfalls and sparkling blue ice caves, Austria’s landscape is as diverse as it is jaw-dropping. Its scenery inspires exploration at every turn ...

The Eben Ice Caves aren’t just frozen waterfalls. They’re a physics lesson in slow motion. Each winter, water trickling through Michigan’s UP limestone creates caves made entirely of ice, forming ...

Looking for blind cavefish in San Luis Potosí, biologist Luis Espinasa and his team accidentally found the remains of giant ...

Follow a fearless team of scientists as they venture into blue holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age, when sea level was nearly 400 feet below what it is today. These caves ...

But during the last ice age when sea levels were much lower, the caves were the high-and-dry habitat for a completely different group of animals. On one dive into a blue hole on Great Abaco Island ...