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Underground cavern from WWII This military installation with two caverns was built at the end of 1940. The larger cavern was to be used as a dormitory for 185 officers and soldiers. All the technical equipment was installed in the smaller cavern. Offices, recreation room and dining rooms were installed in a stationery train in the tunnel. It is not known why, but the installations were never used and still exist, hidden and unused in the Kirchet cliffs. One of the few visitors to the instaliation reported: „The caverns were very luxurious for me: wooden lined walls, heating, running water, flushing toilets, electric lighting ... "

The Rhone Glacier (sometimes also called Rotten Glacier) is a valley glacier in the source area of the Rhone in the extreme northeast of the canton of Valais in the central Alps of Switzerland. It is almost eight kilometers long, has an average width of about two kilometers and covers an area of about 15 km². The glacier was a major tourist attraction, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, due to its tongue, which at that time still extended far down into the valley near Gletsch.

Be careful at the entrance where you go from the rubber mat to the ice. I almost fell. I thought the frozen stuffed animals were funny. Nice atmosphere with the blue twilight.

A glacier educational trail leads through the picturesque high mountain scenery along the glacier lake to the ice grotto near the glacier tongue. For almost 200 years, this has been carved into the glacier practically every year and inside you can experience a "blue miracle" because the grotto shines in a wonderful blue light. Despite the enormous melting of the glacier, the Rhone Glacier is still almost 9 km long and up to 200 m thick. The glacier movement at the level of the ice grotto in the tongue area is 30 - 40 m annually or up to 10 cm per day; nowhere else in Europe can you get as close to a glacier as in the ice grotto in the Rhone Glacier.

The entrance area with ticket office and souvenir shop is the entrance to the Belvédère ice grotto and the Rhone Glacier. The grotto has been carved into the ice here every year since 1870 - at 2300 m above sea level you can experience the Rhone Glacier up close.

Glacier Grotto, Titlis It feels like you are traveling back in time: in the turquoise-blue twilight of the glacier grotto, where the ice, which is up to 5000 years old, freezes the air we breathe into clouds of mist, the mighty heart of the glacier beats. On the 150-meter-long path 10 meters below the surface, you can feel it under your feet and touch it with your hands. An experience that will touch you in a profound way. Text / Source: Titlis Bergbahnen, Gerschnistrasse 12, 6390 Engelberg https://www.titlis.ch/de/aktivitaeten/gletschergrotte

The path in the Aa Gorge leads through a small natural tunnel, nothing spectacular, but very beautiful.

The 150 meter long corridor of the grotto takes you ten meters deep under the surface of the glacier. The exploration tour through the glacier grotto is really cool. The temperature in the grotto is constantly at a chilly -1.5 degrees Celsius. You can easily reach the grotto via a corridor from the first level of the TITLIS mountain station. For free