Environmental Graffiti

The Dachstein Ice Portal

Deep inside this glacier you'll find a frosty world filled with majestic marbled columns of ice, skillfully carved sculptures and captivating music. And that's not all: the Dachstein ice palace also features a giant porthole that enables visitors to see into an enormous crevasse inside one of the world’s largest glaciers. Tourists are certainly treated to a unique experience as they poke their heads into a frosty fissure measuring 40 m (43.7 yards) long, 17 m (18.6 yards) deep and 2 m (2.2 yards).

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The Orchestra Made of Ice

Now we know why all our glaciers are disappearing, no, it’s not due to global warming after all, it’s because a Norwegian percussionist needs the ice for his instruments. Sounds bizarre? Well, that’s probably because it is. Musician Terje Isungset has been carving his chilly instruments from ice for the past 20 years.

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Antarctica’s Spellbinding Stripy Icebergs

Antarctica is the coldest and most barren continent on the face of the Earth, with spine chilling temperatures as low as -130°F (-90°C) in the winter. There is next to no vegetation, no permanent population and not a hotel in sight yet people still flock to the area in their droves to get a glimpse of the abundant wildlife and marine life, and these floating beauties: icebergs.

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