--- title: Drone GoPro Camera Video Captures Views of Alaska's Hidden Ice Caves description: So happy we're watching this while we're inside where there's heat canonical: https://time.com/35948/alaska-ice-caves-video/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-24T19:57:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:06.487Z og:title: Take a Tour of Alaska's Stunning, Eerie Ice Caves With This Video Shot Using a Drone og:description: So happy we're watching this while we're inside where there's heat og:url: https://time.com/35948/alaska-ice-caves-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Take a Tour of Alaska's Stunning, Eerie Ice Caves With This Video Shot Using a Drone twitter:description: So happy we're watching this while we're inside where there's heat twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Take a Tour of Alaska's Stunning, Eerie Ice Caves With This Video Shot Using a Drone by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 24, 2014 7:57 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 24, 2014 7:57 PM CUT One of the great things about drones is they can explore remote, inaccessible locations, like the gorgeous ice caves in Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier. This video, “Bigger Than Life,” bills itself as the “first documented drone flight through ice caves” and captures stunning views using a GoPro camera and a quadcopter drone. See? Drones are good for so much more than just [delivering your Amazon purchases](http://techland.time.com/2013/12/01/amazon-bezos-drones/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/35948/alaska-ice-caves-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/35948/alaska-ice-caves-video/"},"headline":"Take a Tour of Alaska's Stunning, Eerie Ice Caves With This Video Shot Using a Drone","datePublished":"2014-03-24T19:57:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:06.487Z","description":"So happy we're watching this while we're inside where there's heat","url":"https://time.com/35948/alaska-ice-caves-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Alaska","Environment","video","Drone","ICE","nature"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/35948/alaska-ice-caves-video/","name":"Take a Tour of Alaska's Stunning, Eerie Ice Caves With This Video Shot Using a Drone"}}]}] ```