Of those, 88 percent were on vacation. In the Langjokull glacier in western Iceland, a man-made ice tunnel — the largest of its kind in Europe — was constructed in 2015.

That’s especially true these days. Langjokull is melting rapidly. A series of display maps show this massive glacier will be a nub by 2065. One of Iceland’s glaciers, Okjokull, is already gone.

LANGJOKULL GLACIER, ICELAND (AFP) - Instead of a slow slog on snowshoes, a giant bus sweeps passengers at up to 60kmh across Iceland's second-largest glacier, which scientists predict will likely ...

In the end we reached our destination – the world’s largest man-made ice cave, burrowed into the Langjokull Glacier. And I can testify that I have never seen anything like it, nor expect to again.

We brought our 11-year-old twins to be among the first to enter this ice tunnel in Langjokull or “Long Glacier,” the second largest glacier in Europe behind Vatnajokull, also in Iceland.

Since 2000, Eythorsdottir has been monitoring a terminus at Langjokull, a large glacier in the south of Iceland 100 times the size of Snaefellsjokull. (She didn’t inherit her glacier, but rather ...

Langjokull glacier, Iceland's second largest, is expected to have all but disappeared by the end of the century, according to scientists AFP / Halldor KOLBEINS ...

Langjokull glacier, Iceland's second largest, is expected to have all but disappeared by the end of the century, according to scientists Halldor KOLBEINS, AFP ...

The red painted 'glacier bus', a 15 meters long bus fitted with massive tires, drives over the Langjokull ice cap in Iceland, on October 1, 2020. (AFP/Halldor Kolbeins) ...