Other Ice Walls

Alaskan Alpine Club

Other ice walls and towers.

Some other ice towers and walls here and there in the world. Send a picture for this page, if you wish.

The Ice Tower at Lycksele Sweden (2004-05).

The folks in Lycksele have made the tallest free standing ice tower. They started making ice towers in 1995. In 1999 the Lycksele Ice Tower got to 49.54 meters (162 feet 6 inches). It is at the edge of the river running through Lycksele.

Photo by 3DPhoto.se (http://www.3dfoto.se/ispelaren.htm) These guys do superlative webcams, and they have beautiful scenes in Sweden. Click on the link, then move your cursor to either edge of your screen image, and hold the mouse down, to see the full panorama. Then do the same for the camera on the bridge, linked below. And check out 3DPhoto home page.

During the winter they have a web cam pointed at the tower (black at night time), linked from their website (English page). The Map Page shows the red dot locations of their other webcams. Click on the red dot, labeled, Villaryd, on the bridge, then hold down the curser and move it to the side until the webcam image rotates to the ice tower on the river, if it is winter in Sweden's Lapland when you do this. I can see the world ice tower tour being the next winter tourism fad.

Way beautiful.

And the Lycksele Ice Troll

This one in Oulu Finland is 21 meters high, made with an old contruction crane, with a hose inside the crane stick. More pictures of it and ice climbing competitions at climbing.fi/oks91/SMO4/ and arkko.com.

Stubai Glacier ski resort, Austria, 75 feet high.

Stubaier-Gletscher.com

Commercial structure. A ladder inside an internal pipe. 10 meters high. Germany.

Erento.com may have access to the manufacturer.

MackinawCity.org Michigan

2004 on left

2005 on right

It is said that this effort at Hotel Kossie, wherever that is, gets rather high some years.

The effort of Maxime Lefebvre and Laurent Boisclair, of Shawinigan Quebec.

The current ice wall (2005) is 40 feet high. The frame is going to facilitate a summer structure for rock climbing and dry tooling. The green garden hose is the water source. I am guessing that stack of wood used to be the trees around the three ice wall trees.

The first one they made, last year, was on a single Poplar tree wrapped with orange snow fence. A garden hose from the house provided the water. The hose was kept outside the ice. It was 25 feet high, with a 10 foot diameter.