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Glacier grotto
Just inside the entrance to L'Mer d' Glas near Chamonix. The large machines are used to bore caverns into the glacier, which is 30 to 45 feet thick. A small cable car lowers tourists (like us!) from the near the Hotel du Montenvers, just above the glacier and for a fee you can visit "rooms" carved into the ice. It's a neat experience being inside the glacier as you can see and hear the water running through crushed rock beneath your feet, you can see small stones embedded in the ice from surface to about eye level, and occasionally you can hear the rifle-like crack of the ice giving way at the foot of the glacier.
Glacier grotto
Just inside the entrance to L'Mer d' Glas near Chamonix. The large machines are used to bore caverns into the glacier, which is 30 to 45 feet thick. A small cable car lowers tourists (like us!) from the near the Hotel du Montenvers, just above the glacier and for a fee you can visit "rooms" carved into the ice. It's a neat experience being inside the glacier as you can see and hear the water running through crushed rock beneath your feet, you can see small stones embedded in the ice from surface to about eye level, and occasionally you can hear the rifle-like crack of the ice giving way at the foot of the glacier.