If you happen to be near Lubeck in Germany, there is a huge ice
and snow sculpture festival opening 9th December. Forty ice
sculptors will create sculptures for the “Kingdom of
Animals” under supervision of Dave Willé. Artists from the
United States, Canada Great Britain Belgium, Russia and the
Netherlands carve icy animals within the coming weeks. The
sculptors use a variety of methods to carve out their figures;
some use chain saws, some draw a draft on ice cubes. Beginning on
top of the cubes, artists always carve down to the bottom using
an array of ladders and scaffolds. All in all, some 350,000 kilos
of ice and 150,000 kilos of snow will be processed for the Ice
and Snow Sculpture Festival.