“Sweet Motion of the Northern Lights,” a multi-block sculpture at the 2007 World Ice Art Championship in Fairbanks, Alaska (@ Patrick Endres/Getty Images)

“Sweet Motion of the Northern Lights,” a multi-block sculpture at the 2007 World Ice Art Championship in Fairbanks, Alaska (@ Patrick Endres/Getty Images)

comments,

• Are you willing to risk numbness and frostbite for five days…""To make something like this?
• Bundle up before you come here to see what they do with the ice.""And don\t stick your tongue on the art
• Ice sculptors say that the lakes here freeze at temps so low, the ice itself turns blue.""Fine, but enough of this cold! Let\s go somewhere to thaw out
• After they\re finished creating frozen pieces of art, where do contestants of this competition go to celebrate?""Why, this northern outpost