Saturday, April 6, 2013

One Lucky Scientist - he falls into a glacier

This Scientist was on a snowmachine that fell through the ice.  He is alive to tell about it.


"There was a little bit of a worry," he said. "The snowmachine was above me," and he could see one snowmachine ski hanging off the ledge on which it had parked itself. That was on the left. Above him in the crevasse to the right was a big block of ice that didn't look to be wedged all that tightly.


Unexpectedly deep in a glacier and unprepared for the adventure, Douglas noticed something he hadn't noticed before: It's noisy in there and a little spooky. "There's lots of creepy noises," he said. "Those weird popping noises are pretty unsettling."

All that ice is moving, like a living, breathing monster.





http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130405/scientist-snowmachine-survives-75-foot-plunge-alaska-glacier-crevasse

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