Ice Carving Festival has international flavour

The Boardwalk Ice on Whyte festival has attracted 16 international ice carvers working in pairs to create spectacular temporary works of art in a white tent along a busy thoroughfare in Edmonton.
The artist teams use up to 15 blocks of clear ice, each weighing 135 kg, and for a day-and-a-half work to create intricate frozen artwork.
Carving ice is frozen from the bottom up in a Clinebell machine, which forces the impurities in the water to rise to the top which can then can be cut off the i