A series of avalanches and rivers streams form an unusual 'ice chapel' below a mountain range near Hintersee, Austria.<br /><br />Filmed on August 22, thick blankets of snow and ice have formed into a cave a the foot of a mountain.<br /><br />The filmer told Newsflare: "The Hinterseer Eiskapelle, ice chapel of Hintersee, forms as loads of avalanches go down into this narrow valley during the winter, piling up meters of snow until spring.<br /><br />"The snow pile occurs from many avalanches occurring during the winter on the surrounding mountains. With the specific, cone-like shape of the valley, all avalanches go down into the same spot, leading to a huge pile-up of quite dense snow during the winter. <br /><br />"With a river flowing through the snow pile, there is a cave forming in the snow right when the melt season begins.<br /><br />"Unfortunately, I couldn't go in as there was a hazard of the cave collapsing."
