Isgrottens mystik tager en tragisk drejning. Åh nej! Isen brød sammen, og nu søger vi efter to personer!
En grufuld hændelse skete i går, da en gruppe på 25 turister udforskede den spektakulære Breiðamerkurjökull-gletsjer i det sydlige Island. Mens de gik rundt i den imponerende isgrotte, gav isstrukturen pludselig efter og forårsagede et kollaps, som resulterede i, at en turist blev dræbt, og to andre savnede. Redningsmandskaber arbejder hårdt for at finde de savnede, som menes at være begravet under det kolossale islag. Det er en påmindelse om, hvor uforudsigelige og farlige naturens kræfter kan være!
Iceland er kendt for sine dramatiske landskaber og isformationer, men dette tragiske tilfælde understreger nødvendigheden af sikkerhed, når man udforsker sådanne fantastiske steder. De tilstedeværende guider gør deres bedste for at sikre, at turisterne er sikre, men som vi ofte hører, er naturen uforudsigelig. Dette hændelse har allerede affødt diskussioner om sikkerhedsforanstaltningerne i den populære turistattraktion. En tragedie som denne kan have en domino-effekt, og det er vigtigt, at der bliver taget skridt til at forbedre sikkerheden.
Mennesker, der besøger disse isgrottter, skal aldrig undervurdere kraften i det iskolde element. Isen kan være skjult over sprækker og dybe kløfter, som man ikke altid kan se. De, der overvinder frygt og tager på eventyr, bør altid følge vejledninger, og overse ikke sikkerhedsadvarsler.
I øvrigt er det værd at nævne, at Breiðamerkurjökull-gletsjeren er en del af det større Vatnajökull Nationalpark, som er det største nationalpark i Europa og hjemsted for en af de mest imponerende gletsjere i verden. Mens turistinteressen for gletsjeren fortsætter med at vokse, er det altafgørende at passe på denne vidunderlige, men skrøbelige, naturskabelse. Desuden har Island en af de mest fascinerende geologiske historier, idet landet som bekendt er blevet dannet af vulkansk aktivitet og iskapper i millioner af år, hvilket gør det til et unikt sted at studere geologi og klimaændringer!
At least one person has died and two others are missing after an ice cave partially collapsed as a group of tourists was visiting a glacier in southern Iceland.
A foreign tourist has died in south Iceland after ice collapsed during a visit their group was making to a glacier, local media report.
Emergency personnel are looking for two people who are trapped under the debris of an ice cave that collapsed in Breiðamerkurjökull glacier yesterday.
In short: At least one person has died and two others are missing after an ice cave in southern Iceland partially collapsed. The cave, located at the ...
At least one tourist has died, another was injured, and two others are still missing.
The search for two tourists missing after an ice cave collapsed on Breiðamerkurjökull Sunday has been postponed. A third tourist was pronounced dead at the ...
A tourist has died and two others are missing after an ice cave suddenly collapsed in Iceland while a group of 25 were exploring the region on Sunday, Aug.
A group of 25 tourists were touring an ice cave on Breidamerkurjokull glacier in southern Iceland on Sunday when falling ice killed at least one person.
The tourists were part of a group exploring a glacier in southeastern Iceland when an ice canyon wall collapsed. A fourth tourist was rescued, ...
Rescuers in Iceland are working by hand to cut through the remnants of a collapsed ice cave as they search for two tourists missing for more than 24 hours ...
The ice caves are popular tourist destinations, where travelers can see the inside of glaciers up close.
A group of about 25 foreign tourists from several nationalities were exploring the caves of the Breidamerkurjokull glacier in Iceland when the ice collapsed ...
Video showed rescuers working inside two large craters surrounded by the sand-blackened ice of the glacier in the southeastern part of the island.
Icelandic authorities are searching for two tourists missing since an ice cave partially collapsed on Sunday afternoon, killing one person and injuring another.
One American man is dead, and an American woman is injured in Iceland following a collapse of the Breiðamerkurjökull ice cave, Iceland's public broadcaster ...
One American man is dead, and an American woman is injured in Iceland following a collapse of the Breiðamerkurjökull ice cave, Iceland's public broadcaster ...
One American died and a second was injured after an ice cave popular with tourist groups collapsed Sunday afternoon.