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Ice is often underrated, especially compared to fire.
Fire can burn, destroy, renew, and it’s often seen as more powerful.
However, ice can also burn, destroy, renew, and even preserve!
Perhaps, we’ve been underestimating freezing as a weapon -
patent pending.
Not everything that’s preserved should be, though, and sometimes, defrosting whatever
it is that got caught can turn into a really frightening moment.
Like when you defrost your wedding cake after 5 years but you’re no longer married, horrifying!
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10.
Fro-tographs After a tragedy, we’re often left with the
remains of people and their belongings, such as clothes.
In this case, the tragedy was at sea, and the passengers were on a ship.
In 2013, conservationists were reconstructing huts in the Arctic and came upon a gem.
A lockbox in a block of ice.
Inside, were black and white images from this shipwreck.
In them, you could see an expedition, a crew in distress, and the leader of the expedition,
Ernest Shackleton.
After the crash, it seems the crew walked away on frozen water to safety.
They actually survived and left the photos!
Gotta love a happy ending.
9.
Volcano Volcanos aren’t usually what you think of
when you imagine what you could find under an ice cap.
However, there is a place where you can find it!
There is an actual volcano frozen in ice in China.
Well, kind of.
Ice in the case of these plains is forming structures that resemble volcanos when the
ground freezes over, then melts.
The change in temperature creates these strange-looking things.
Now, these flatlands in China look like they have protruding hills out of nowhere.
You won’t find lava inside waiting to take you in once that ice melts, but the place
is quite a sight either way!
Who knew ice could do stuff like that?
Pretty cool!
8.
Green Boots Somewhere in Mount Everest, locals and climbers
alike know the area called The Rainbow Alley.
This isn’t because you get a particularly amazing Nepal rainbow while you’re on it,
but rather because of how many climbers have died there leaving their bodies and colorful
gear scattered about.
There’s no doubt about it, if you haven’t properly trained for it, Mount Everest could
be your final resting place.
One particular climber died on Mount Everest wearing bright green boots.
Their body was somewhere under a rock and was later removed, months later.
The boots remained, however, after he was taken away possibly to be buried properly.
That’s certainly quite morbid.
7.
A Meteorite Yes!
Like an actual meteorite from space.
Now, it’s not a meteor, so it didn’t make a dent on earth and is really just the size
of a potato.
However, how exciting and freaky is it to see something that was hurling around space
come right into our backyard.
If you call Antarctica our backyard, that is.
The meteorite fell into the desolate Antarctica and it holds microbes from Mars from ages
ago which could be incredibly enlightening to scientists as to what Mars held way back
when.
6.
Weird Skulls Antarctica isn’t just full of meteorites
though.
In fact, scientists have found crazier things.
Get this, they actually found some skulls from prehistoric people.
These skulls don’t look much like ours though, as they’re actually elongated on the top,
making them look a lot more like an alien than anything else.
They’ve since found more human remains, but these skulls were the very first to be
found.
This lets us know that not only have humans visited Antarctica before modern technology,
they actually did so a very long time ago.
5.
Bloody Waterfall Okay, say you went to Antarctica and you didn’t
find a meteorite or a skull.
You’d think maybe you’d see some cool animals, a glacier or something, or a bloody
waterfall.
And when I say bloody, I'm not trying to sound British.
In Antarctica, you can actually find a waterfall that appears to be constantly streaming blood
from the ice into the water.
The Taylor Glacier is the host of this scary phenomenon and the reason behind it may surprise
you.
The source has a large content of iron oxide, coloring the water in this eerie way.
4.
Alien Vs Icy Predator This horrid thing found by scientists in the
Antarctica ice seems like some strange fusion between alien and predator from the movie
franchise.
It’s only 20 centimeters big with a 2-centimeter retractable jaw, but it might as well be as
big as a fully-grown tiger.
Scientists don’t know much about it, besides that it looks like it wants to eat us all
in 2-centimeter bites at a time.
Its appearance even has bits that look like chicken legs!
Perhaps this is one scary thing that can just stay frozen in ice.
I’m totally fine with never knowing more.
3.
Rugby Bodies This Uruguayan team’s plane crashed into
the Andes mountains, killing many of them.
However, those that survived weren’t off the hook.
They had a long trek ahead in order to feel safe.
In fact, they were listening to the radio when the announcement was made that the search
for them had ceased.
How devastating!
This isn’t the scary part though, when two of them finally made their way to make contact
and the rest were found, a priest had been sent to help with the final resting place
of those who passed.
Little did he know that he wouldn’t find some of the bodies intact, as the survivors
resorted to cannibalism in order to stay alive.
2.
Abandoned Huts When you try to be the first human to reach
the South Pole, you’re taking on a lot of risks.
In fact, the odds are against you.
This was the case for Robert Falcon Scott.
Imagine the fear of going into the frigid unknown just trying to make a legacy.
What’s worse is when they arrived, they found that they had been beaten to the bunch
by a group of Norwegians.
On their way back to their supply hut, the team died after being hit by tough weather.
The hut was buried under snow and ice and only found later in 1956, when it was dug
up and found frozen in time...
1.
Endurance Endurance was the name of a ship holding an
expedition to Antarctica which crashed and sank.
Since then, several expeditions had attempted to find it, but failed.
However, in 2018 more technology was brought in as back up and was still going on until
the researchers found that they ran a high risk of becoming stuck in the ice just like
the Endurance did over 100 years before, and so had to give up the search and walk away
empty-handed.
Quite sad, as it could have been very interesting and pretty nostalgic to bring up the old fallen
ship, just like in Titanic!