Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Artist Creates Amazing 25-Foot-Tall Ice Castles
Don't let your eyes deceive you. This isn't Narnia, although many first comers to these beautiful ice castles can't help but think of it.
Artist Brent Christensen, 50, of Alpine, Utah, has spent the last four years perfecting the craft of intertwining icicles into solid, 20 to 25-foot-tall structures he calls ice castles.
The hobby first started in 2000, when Christensen's family moved from sunny California to chilly Utah, and were looking for fun outdoor activities to do during the winter.
For more pictures of Christensen's ice castles, click here.
"We started doing winter stuff in the yard, playing around with the kids, making igloos and ice forts and slides and stuff," Christensen told ABCNews.com. "And it just evolved. One year I stumbled upon the concept of doing icicles by spraying water.
"We made one with a big wooden frame under it, and when it melted in the spring, it was a huge mess with a pile of soaking wood. The following year I didn't want to use any wood so it
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