"How To Make An Igloo"

Here's something for those who have always wondered: How to Make An Igloo.

An igloo is a temporary dome-shaped winter home or hunting-ground dwelling of Canadian and Greenland Inuit, made from blocks of snow. The builder chooses a deep snowdrift of fine-grained, compact snow, and then cuts it into blocks. After a row of these blocks have been laid in a circle, their top surfaces are shaved off in a sloping angle to form the first rung of a spiral. Additional blocks are added to the spiral to draw it inward until a dome is completed, a ventilation hole is added at the top... and you have yourself an igloo.

Fascinating stuff!

-Jon
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