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Climate solutions Plaine Morte glacier – the voyage within Previous Next The entry. The moulin is still free of snow. ©avocado360 After abseiling for about 50 metres, we hit snowy ground. Now we enter darkness. ©avocado360 Abseiling into the moulin. In summertime, a waterfall thunders down here. ©avocado360 Farther down, the snow almost prevents us from continuing. We need to do some digging. ©avocado360 Through a small hole, we finally reach a horizontal gallery. At the beginning, walking upright is still possible. ©avocado360 But soon, we have to revert to crawling on all fours on the ice. ©avocado360 It’s pitch dark. It is a comfortable 0 degrees. Cave researcher Frédéric Bétrisey explores the way ahead. ©avocado360 The corridors are filled with a snow-water mix, which is still liquid in autumn. We crawl underneath it. ©avocado360 Base camp on the glacier. It’s significantly colder here than inside the caves. Minus 25 degrees. ©avocado360 Strategy consulting in the kitchen igloo. Will we be able to find the drain? ©avocado360 The gorge in the ice. This is where the lake basin drains and where the water has cut deeply into the ice. We assume the drain to be at the end, however, it is covered in snow. ©avocado360 We find another hole in the gorge. Is this leading anywhere? ©avocado360 Indeed – the snow that fell at the beginning of winter did not block the hole entirely. ©avocado360 A dark shaft leads into darkness. ©avocado360 Suddenly, we see light coming in from above. We assume that we are inside a covered moulin. ©avocado360 We have reached the water. We carefully move along the ice. Ice floes are swimming in the corridor. ©avocado360 The faint source of light is above us. The ceiling does not seem to be solid. The corridors disappear in the water. ©avocado360 The team. ©avocado360 Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5 Picture 6 Picture 7 Picture 8 Picture 9 Picture 10 Picture 11 Picture 12 Picture 13 Picture 14 Picture 15 Picture 16 Picture 17 Picture 18 This content was published on May 9, 2017 - 14:09 You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here . Please join us! If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.
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