It's an emotional moment as I dive into the natural glacier cave - into another world. My body releases happiness hormones and adrenaline at the same time, because despite its mass, the beauty seems fragile and is certainly not imperishable. Again and again there is a dull cracking sound inside the masses of ice and a constant drip from the ceiling. Dangerously large chunks of ice on the floor remind me that something could always fall. My mind is awake, my spirit enchanted by this majestic structure, cloaked in colors that only a glacier can paint. So beautiful that the whole thing can hardly be described in words. And then this tranquillity... interrupted only by the mysterious sounds that the glacier emits from within. My hands tremble as I take photos. It's not the cold.
Snow and wind as master builders
Even long-established freeriders who have been skiing on the Titlis for half a century are impressed and say that nothing like this has ever happened up here before. There are probably several factors at play that make it possible to visit, or even ski through, the 50-metre-long cave.
