A 13-year-old boy was killed in a landslide this Sunday afternoon during an ascent to the largest ice caves in the world, in Austria. The latter are located at 1,600 meters above sea level in the mountains of Tennengebirge (center), police said.
The teenager was hit in the chest while he and his parents were on the path leading from a cable car to the entrance to this classified natural site, "The World of Ice Giants", near Werfen in Pongau , in the Salzburg region.
A rock with a volume of about two cubic meters
"400 meters above the site, a rock with a volume of about two cubic meters detached from the heavy rains on Saturday," said geologist Gerald Valentin.
With a length of 42 kilometers, this network discovered in 1879 is considered to be the largest succession of ice caves in the world. In high season, up to 2,500 people visit the demonstration cavity every day, which leads inside for about a kilometer and has monumental and crystalline arches.
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