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Summary Largest group of ice caves discovered in north China.
Five out-of-season ice cave groups have been discovered in succession in the Yunqiu Mountain of Xiangning County in North Chinas Shanxi Province. They have been identified as the largest group of ice caves ever discovered in China, according to the Institute of Geology and Geophysics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences after textual research.People could shudder at the entrance to one of the natural out-of-season ice caves even when the outdoor temperature is over 22 degrees centigrade. Thick ice froze inside the cave, with many icicles on the ceiling of the cave, making a striking contrast with the green vegetation outside. Five groups of ice caves like this have been discovered in an area of 35 square kilometers at the Yunqiu Mountain, the largest of its kind ever discovered in China.According to Chen Shicai, researcher of the CAS Institute of Geology and Geophysics, only about one in every 10,000 caves in China is ice cave. So the ice cave groups are rather a miracle.
