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Icy days and nights
Today is the opening
day of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, in
Harbin, China. The festival lasts for one month, and features large ice
and snow sculptures, ice lanterns, swimming in the icy Songhua River
and more. The northern hemisphere is a hospitable place for ice
festivals these days, so in that spirit, here is a collection of recent
photographs of all things frozen, and some of the ways we live and play
with ice. (34 photos total)
Fishermen
drill a hole through the two-foot-thick ice to put their net into the
frozen Chagan Lake on December 24, 2008 in Songyuan, Jilin Province,
China. Chagan Lake is one of the ten biggest fresh water lakes in China
and winter fishing on the lake has a history of over 2,000 years. The
local authorities organize the old tradition aimed to attract a lot of
tourists and make the lake a popular tourist destination in winter.
(Guang Niu/Getty Images) #
Avery
Thomas and Dave Dishneau work to secure straps from a crane hook to a
submerged utility truck Monday afternoon, Dec. 22, 2008, on the Chena
River in Fairbanks, Alaska. The vehicle's multiple occupants escaped
unharmed after breaking through thin ice near Pike's Landing the
previous night. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Johnny Wagner) #
Nam
Nguyen climbs an ice-encrusted ladder out of Lake Minnetonka during the
19th annual On it and In It Lake Minnetonka Ice Dive in Excelsior,
Minnesota, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. With morning temperatures in the
teens, event organizers said more than 900 people plunged into the
31-degree waters to greet the new year. (AP Photo/St. Paul Pioneer
Press, Richard Marshall) #
More links and information
Harbin-Ice.net - Official site (Chinese)
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