Things We Never Expected To Learn From The Melting Of An Alpine Glacier

Published on 06/10/2022
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It Wasn’t A Pleasant Environment

According to reports, the soldiers had to sleep on straw beds and eat canned food. It was only a matter of time before the rations were depleted. As a result, they had to hunt for alternative food sources. That explains the hollow animal bones discovered by the scientists, implying that they ate the marrow.

It Wasn't A Pleasant Environment

It Wasn’t A Pleasant Environment

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In This Cave, Time Stopped

Morsini’s remarks were repeated by the White War Museum. “The discoveries in the cave on Mount Scorluzzo provide us, after over a century, a piece of life at almost 3,000 meters above sea level, where time paused on November 3, 1918, when the last Austrian soldier locked the door and rushed downwards,” according to the statement.

In This Cave, Time Stopped

In This Cave, Time Stopped

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