Daschstein Ice Caves - written by Connor

Today I went to the ice caves, first we had to go on a speeding fast cable car and when we went up over a mid-way pylon it felt like we were free falling in the cable car, then it went super-fast and after that we arrived at the top.  We took a 5 minute walking track up to the cave and when we arrived we had to wait for 2 minutes until we could go into the cave.  In the meantime  we enjoyed amazing views over the mountains as we were 1420m high.

Then we went into the cave, it was amazing how cold it got when you were in the cave; one second we were warm next minute we were at -3.C, we also saw some amazing ice spikes. The ice spikes were sharp.

The ice was so cold when I picked it up I yelled “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is cold because I thought it was fake”.  The ice was 600 years old and every summer it melted but every winter it grew more than it lost the previous summer. 

My favourite was the big ice sculptures because I had never seen anything like it before.  I liked them because they had huge spikes glistening in the light of the torch, the spikes that were 5 times sharper and pointier than a normal sharp knife at home.