The winter months have provided hikers with the rare chance to explore ice caves carved by melting ice on a glacier in eastern Switzerland.

Hikers are flocking to Switzerland to see ice caves that are there for a limited time only. Never mind that they are extremely dangerous and potentially lethal, these ice caves on the Morteratsch ...

Hikers are taking advantage of freezing winter conditions to venture inside short-lived — and potentially lethal — ice caves that appeared on the Morteratsch glacier in eastern Switzerland.

Those lucky enough to step inside the ice caves described them as "beautiful ... Studies have predicted more than half of Switzerland’s small glaciers will be gone within the next 25 years.