Show I 1 ENTOMBED IN ICE E are preserved for years tears and then come to light A skeleton has been found in one of he ae fissures of the glacier in ha ad southern tyrol which is thought 0 o be that of an american tourist of he name of ruth who disappeared in 1890 these fissures cleave glaciers at ill angles and it is easy to slip into ane ne of them when once in it is ardly possible to escape without help from above and the warmth of the body melts the ice around so that the victim slowly descends by the weight of df his own body into the depths of the glacier and generally starves to death on looking into these fissures the most beautiful play of light in blue and green and rainbow colors is seen but these axe are best enjoyed from the safe vantage ground of the upper outside world rather than down in the depths and close at haw hand in some instance it is said bodies have been preserved down in these fissures in the ico ice for years yeam |