It wasn’t that she was afraid, although finding her way out was going to be a challenge. It was more that she had the unusual sensation of being lost in time as she crawled further inside the frozen Grotta Di Tofana. At the exact moment she reached the belly of the mountain, a shimmer reflected the beam of her torch directly into her eyes. As they adjusted to the new surroundings, the inside of the mountain lit up like a million glistening diamonds, and she saw the majestic beauty of a thousand prehistoric ice crystal stalactites.