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What You Should Know About The Danger Of Ice Caves

KUOW | By Kim Malcolm
Published July 8, 2015 at 2:05 PM AKDT
A view from the Big 4 ice caves in Washington from December 2014. Last weekend, warm weather caused a collapsed that killed one hiker and injured five others.
Flickr Photo/Michael Matti (CC BY NC ND 2.0)
A view from the Big 4 ice caves in Washington from December 2014. Last weekend, warm weather caused a collapsed that killed one hiker and injured five others.

Kim Malcolm talks to Doug Clark, associate professor of geology at Western Washington University, about the different types of ice caves, how they are formed and their risks.

Photo credit: "Big 4 Ice Caves in the Winter," by Michael Matti on Flickr (CC BY NC ND 2.0)
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