Into the Glacier, situated inside Iceland’s second-largest glacier Langjökull, is the world’s biggest man-made ice tunnel which is half-a-kilometre long, 3 metres high and 3.5 metres wide.
Langjökull, which literally means ‘long glacier’, extends 950 km² and is situated on hyaloclastite mountains, with Þórisjökull towards the south. On its south-western side, Geitlandsjökull rises as high as 1400 metres.
Into the Glacier, situated inside Iceland’s second-largest glacier Langjökull, is the world’s biggest man-made ice tunnel which is half-a-kilometre long, 3 metres high and 3.5 metres wide. Langjökull, which literally means ‘long glacier’, extends 950 km² and is situated on hyaloclastite mountains, with Þórisjökull towards the south. On its south-western side, Geitlandsjökull rises as high as 1400 metres.
The tunnel was the vision of two enthusiastic Icelandic businessmen, Baldvin Einarsson and Hallgrímur Örn Arngrímsson, in 2010, who envisaged a plan to seek advice of experts, including geophysicists and engineers, to design and initiate the task of shaping the one-of-its-kind and the biggest ice cave in the world. The herculean task and a feat not attempted before in world history, took a year and two months to complete, where it is said 5500 m² of ice was excavated with the help of drum cutters, bulldozers and other equipment. The ice in the tunnel extends 200 metres below the cave floor and is 25 metres thick. The view inside is amazing and like nothing ever witnessed elsewhere.
Once inside the magnificent man-made wonder, you will see varied layers of breathtaking blue-coloured ice, volcanic ash, ice sculptures, fissures and also a chapel made of ice, where weddings too have taken place. The tunnel is operated by the ‘Into the Glacier’ operator from June to mid-October.
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