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Breathtaking Ice Tunnels Of French Alps

  The ice tunnels of the French Alps: Breathtaking shots show climbers risking their lives in steep, narrow caves These breathtaking photographs show climbers scaling a treacherous tunnel made entirely from ice to make their way out of a cave carved in a frigid glacier. The brave explorers look as though they are on the verge of sliding down the swooping sides of the cave - a vertiginous drop of more than 20m onto jagged ice. Braving freezing temperatures and a dangerous ascent, Alexandre Buisse clung to supports screwed directly into the walls of ice to photograph his friends scaling the Mer de Glace glacier in Chamonix, France. Brave: Hulya Vassail climbs the sheer, treacherous walls of a moulin ice cave, formed by meltwater on Chamonix's Mer de Glace glacier Treacherous: The walls of the cave are made entirely from slippery ice, and climbers face a 20m plummet to jagged ice below if their ropes fail to hold them ...