Springtime in Svalbard with Elin & Bruce



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Getting all the way to the bottom is a bit of a chore.
We are 20 m below the surface of the glacier.
Here comes another one. We are in a tunnel of ice.
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The temperature is about minus two Celsius.
Quite warm and pleasant for Svalbard.
A particularly attractive formation of pressure ridges. The cave opens up into a real cathedral of ice.
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Soil and rock mix with the ice. When the glacier
melts in the coming centuries this will be
left behind as a morrain.
Yes it is impressive. A line of soil in the fossil ice