2. (c) a layer of snow formed in a single drift Almost any snow will work for an experienced igloo builder in a pinch, but the best kind is a deep layer of packed snow from the same drift.

The Iglu-Dorf hotel chain can give you a feel for it – because it runs five igloo holiday ‘villages’ in the Alps made entirely of snow and ice that are rebuilt every year. Temperatures ...

With its focus on the ingenious craft of igloo building before it becomes too late to record it, this is a meditative and poetic sensory immersion in a landscape of ice and snow, an elegy to a ...

But the best snow-hut architects will also tell you that you would need to know some important things before you could build a successful igloo yourself. In this quiz, see if you can guess the ...

But when you are surrounded by snow, what do you build? The answer is of course, an igloo! 'Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in ...