Glacial Echoes – Echoes from Within the Glacier
A step into the blue-tinted twilight of an ice cave beneath the Morteratsch Glacier.
Inside the Ice Cathedral
When I entered the vast glacier cave, time seemed to stand still for a moment. All around me, countless natural sculptures made of ancient ice glowed with otherworldly light, arching high like the ceiling of a silent, colossal cathedral.
With awe, I stood there, fully aware that I was face-to-face with ice that had formed nearly two thousand years ago.
Ancient Air – Silent Time Capsules
In the clear ice surrounding me, countless tiny bubbles are trapped, shimmering in the light reflected throughout the cave. These are ancient air bubbles – small pockets of Earth’s atmosphere from centuries past, perfectly preserved in the frozen archive of the glacier.
When snow once fell on these mountains and was gradually compressed into ice, it captured tiny fragments of air. Over time, these bubbles sank to the base of the glacier – the basal layer – and were sealed there more than a thousand years ago.
