For nearly a week, about a dozen residents cut, transported and assembled some 1,200 blocks of snow at the entrance of Sylvia ...

When building an igloo for six hours in minus 54 degrees, Dylan Clark adheres to this ratio: For every second his hand is exposed to the cold, it takes 10 minutes back in the glove to warm it ...

Scientifically, the best way to build an igloo is how the Inuit in the North still do it. Here's how to construct your own shelter out of snow.

How to Build An Igloo. By Lexi Krock; Posted 02.01.06; ... (Inuit finishing igloo) © Chris Rainier/CORBIS (igloo at night, person in red coat by igloo) © Beat Glanzmann/zefa/CORBIS.

Scientifically, the best way to build an igloo is how the Inuit in the North still do it. Here's how to construct your own shelter out of snow.

Inuit women building an igloo in 1926. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images. This structure is the most complicated of the three and takes some effort. Instructions here are for the most basic of igloos.

Adventure Journal found this video of two Inuit men building an igloo in 1949—and it just might inspire the snowy settler within. If you are inspired, there are plenty of igloo how-to's out there .

In an hour or two, a pair of Inuit Eskimos can build a warm hut from scratch. ... To build an igloo, start with the right kind of snow. It must be hard-packed and solid.

We've finished the structure in 3 hours—an eternity for an Inuit igloo-builder. Novalinga has won speed-building competitions in 20 minutes. Our work isn't quite done.

KANGIQSUJUAQ, Quebec -- Adami Sakiagak, his tongue poking out of the side of his mouth in concentrated effort, trimmed the edges on a block of snow above his head. Ice crystals cascaded around him ...

Adventure Journal found this video of two Inuit men building an igloo in 1949—and it just might inspire the snowy settler within. If you are inspired, there are plenty of igloo how-to's out there .