Ice Caves

Analysis of a 17,000-year-old infant’s remains from southern Italy sheds light on Ice Age ancestry and health. The infant, found in a Puglian cave, was likely around a year old at death and had distinctive traits—brown skin, blue eyes, and curly dark hair. His genome links him to Europe’s Villabruna lineage, suggesting their presence in south...

One person has died and two others were still missing a day after an ice cave collapsed in southeast Iceland while a tour group was visiting the area, police said Monday.

Ancient cave paintings are generally thought to have meanings, however, the specifics of these drawings have long eluded experts. But now, British scientists have claimed to have decoded why Ice Age hunter-gatherers drew cave paintings.

A car wash in Texas became an ice cave as a "bomb cyclone" brought freezing-cold temperatures to the United States. A video shared on social media showed the drive-through car wash covered in icicles.

A tourist identified by local media as a Brazilian man died near Argentina's southern city of Ushuaia after being hit by a block of ice that broke off the roof of a Patagonian cave, local police said on Thursday.

Astonishing photos of "rainbow ice caves" at Mount Rainier National Park in the United States have prompted the National Park Service to issue a warning about the dangers of exploring these caves.

More than 14,000 pilgrims paid obeisance at the naturally-formed ice lingam in the cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas Saturday.

A batch of 5,522 pilgrims on Thursday left Jammu for the Himalayan cave shrine Amarnath, after 33,694 yatris completed paying obeisance before the ice stalagmite structure of Lord Shiva over the past three days.

Spencer and Jessica Christiansen realized that they were dangerously close to death.

The ice Shivling at the holy Amarnath cave in Jammu and Kashmir has completely melted a month before the annual pilgrimage officially gets over. Around three lakh people are expected to visit the holy cave during the two-month-long pilgrimage. Over two lakh pilgrims have already paid obeisance since the yatra began a month ago.

Unseasonal winter rain had seeped along the floor of the ice cave, freezing the last incline. That had made slipping to the bottom easy enough, but finding a way out was now a problem. Ten miles outside the northernmost town on the planet, six travelers were trapped at the back of an ice cave.

The Supreme Court has set aside a green court order making the area around the Amarnath cave shrine's ice Shivling a "silence zone". The National Green Tribunal has exceeded its jurisdiction in giving the order, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said on Monday

Following protests over restrictions regarding chanting of mantras and jingles near the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir and its decision to declare it a "silent zone", the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today clarified that the checks apply only to the area around the ice "Shivling".

The head of a website has been dubbed 'Britain's best boss' after he splurged a whopping three million pounds to create a dream 'castle' office for his employees complete with a Star Wars-themed cinema, gaming arcade, yoga studio along with an "ice cave" for meetings.

Amarnath Yatra: Over 18,000 pilgrims have paid homage at the shrine of Lord Shiva during the annual pilgrimage in the first three days. Over 18,000 pilgrims have taken the blessing of the holy Ice Lingam of Lord Shiva at the 3,888 metre-high Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said on Tuesday. "The yatra is going on smoothl...

Analysis of a 17,000-year-old infant’s remains from southern Italy sheds light on Ice Age ancestry and health. The infant, found in a Puglian cave, was likely around a year old at death and had distinctive traits—brown skin, blue eyes, and curly dark hair. His genome links him to Europe’s Villabruna lineage, suggesting their presence in south...

One person has died and two others were still missing a day after an ice cave collapsed in southeast Iceland while a tour group was visiting the area, police said Monday.

Ancient cave paintings are generally thought to have meanings, however, the specifics of these drawings have long eluded experts. But now, British scientists have claimed to have decoded why Ice Age hunter-gatherers drew cave paintings.

A car wash in Texas became an ice cave as a "bomb cyclone" brought freezing-cold temperatures to the United States. A video shared on social media showed the drive-through car wash covered in icicles.

A tourist identified by local media as a Brazilian man died near Argentina's southern city of Ushuaia after being hit by a block of ice that broke off the roof of a Patagonian cave, local police said on Thursday.

Astonishing photos of "rainbow ice caves" at Mount Rainier National Park in the United States have prompted the National Park Service to issue a warning about the dangers of exploring these caves.

More than 14,000 pilgrims paid obeisance at the naturally-formed ice lingam in the cave shrine of Amarnath in the south Kashmir Himalayas Saturday.

A batch of 5,522 pilgrims on Thursday left Jammu for the Himalayan cave shrine Amarnath, after 33,694 yatris completed paying obeisance before the ice stalagmite structure of Lord Shiva over the past three days.

Spencer and Jessica Christiansen realized that they were dangerously close to death.

The ice Shivling at the holy Amarnath cave in Jammu and Kashmir has completely melted a month before the annual pilgrimage officially gets over. Around three lakh people are expected to visit the holy cave during the two-month-long pilgrimage. Over two lakh pilgrims have already paid obeisance since the yatra began a month ago.

Unseasonal winter rain had seeped along the floor of the ice cave, freezing the last incline. That had made slipping to the bottom easy enough, but finding a way out was now a problem. Ten miles outside the northernmost town on the planet, six travelers were trapped at the back of an ice cave.

The Supreme Court has set aside a green court order making the area around the Amarnath cave shrine's ice Shivling a "silence zone". The National Green Tribunal has exceeded its jurisdiction in giving the order, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said on Monday

Following protests over restrictions regarding chanting of mantras and jingles near the Amarnath shrine in south Kashmir and its decision to declare it a "silent zone", the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today clarified that the checks apply only to the area around the ice "Shivling".

The head of a website has been dubbed 'Britain's best boss' after he splurged a whopping three million pounds to create a dream 'castle' office for his employees complete with a Star Wars-themed cinema, gaming arcade, yoga studio along with an "ice cave" for meetings.

Amarnath Yatra: Over 18,000 pilgrims have paid homage at the shrine of Lord Shiva during the annual pilgrimage in the first three days. Over 18,000 pilgrims have taken the blessing of the holy Ice Lingam of Lord Shiva at the 3,888 metre-high Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, officials said on Tuesday. "The yatra is going on smoothl...