14-year-old Iraqi man killed in rock slide Sunday ascent to the world's largest ice caves, 1,600 meters above sea level in Austria's Tennengebirge Mountains, police said. . The adolescent was hit in the chest while he was 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.
" 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 the 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.
