High altitude karstic environments often preserve permanent ice deposits within caves, representing the lesser-known portion of the cryosphere. Despite being not so widespread and easily reachable as mountain glaciers and ice caps, ice caves preserve much information about past environmental changes and climatic evolution. They are predominantly but not exclusively located in the periglacial domain where permafrost is not dominant, but they can be find even in much warmer climates. The natural response of ice caves to a warming climate could lead to a fast reduction of such ice masses that preserve important paleoclimate informations. For this reason is extremily urgent to assess widespread studies on this topic in order to save such precious information before they'll be definitely lost.