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Stairways to Heaven

This is a five-metre-deep water well melted into a glacier at the Novolazarevskaya station. The light acquires a bright blue colour as it travels through the ice.

Full story please read here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/talking_point/newsid_7659000/7659043.stm (russian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7670264.stm (english)

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Hubert Kosmowski 1 year ago

spechless stoning jaw dropping !

Ratko Nedovic 1 year ago

"The stairways to Paradise". Good shot.

Hako 2 years ago

wow!

Sieger Joostens 2 years ago

This is so unique and amazing! Good work!

Jacek Stefan 2 years ago

Great one! /J.

Ovik 2 years ago

I can not imagine, how you take this picture is incredible .. ..amazing view

Hubert Kosmowski 2 years ago

unreal beauty

WisoNet 2 years ago

espectacular!! congrats ,-)

Cheron 3 years ago

Wow ... Amazing photo !

Earl A. Jones 3 years ago

Amazing capture!

Hannes Cmarits 3 years ago

great. And thanks for the explanation.

Raffi 3 years ago

This is a great shot !! I'm really impressed by all your pictures

Anna Lepke 3 years ago

Amazing!

eyelife 3 years ago

stunning picture! seems to come out from a movie! well done!

Petitelfe petitelfe 3 years ago

VERyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee photoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Schnette 3 years ago

Really amazing!

Niels Christian Wulff 3 years ago

Amazing this one....!
/Wulff

Lev Tsimring 3 years ago

that is an amazing sight, never seen anything like it!

Doug Roane 3 years ago

WOW!

RomImage 3 years ago

incredible picture

adam martin cohen 3 years ago

amazing!

Codrin Lupei 3 years ago

Really incredible...amazing all your series from these places! Love them!

Ludovic Charbonneau 3 years ago

Wonderfull...
But a dangerous place i think.

Anton Chekalin Thank you Ludovic! You're right, it's a little bit dangerous to be there under the glaicer (actually the hole high of the glaicer is more than 700 m. - so the right word isn't "under" but "inside") becourse heavily-loaded tractors are moving on the surface of glaicer. Sometimes emptiness can't withstand pressure.

Guro Storskjær 3 years ago

Wow!
This is how we can see how spectacular our mother earth is.
What a great feeling that had to be.
Congrats!

Anton Chekalin Thanks Guro! It's great feeling to be there - becourse the age of the glacier on this level is more than thousand years - you can taste the absolutely pure ice and water )))

Balazs Pataki 3 years ago

Spectaacular! Molodets! :)

Anton Chekalin Spasibo Balatz!

Hans Van Rafelghem 3 years ago

Impressive

Anton Chekalin Thanks!

Piet Flour 3 years ago

Amazing shot, very wel processed!
Piet

Anton Chekalin Thank you Piet!

Carola Lundmark 3 years ago

Fantastic! Great color and light.
Isn´t photography fantastic that makes it possible for us to see places we never would have the possibility to visit IRL. This frozen place is a great example!Thanks Anton.
Best regards Carola

Anton Chekalin Many thanks Carola! It's true - photography makes many things possible. Not only to see but sometimes to feel ))) that's why i think it's kind of magic!

Suren Manvelyan 3 years ago

This is a great photo! I saw it somewhere else!
But your links doesn't work!

Anton Chekalin Thank you Suren! Unfortunately this picture was stolen from my russian webgallery several times and replicated at hundreds sites without any permission. But anyway I'm happy place it here!