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Article: Melt? This hotel is frozen until May
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 4, 1995
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On seats made from six-foot blocks of ice, within walls of ice
so thick they are bullet proof and watching a film projected
through a fug of human breath, Yngve Bergqvist sniggered to
himself.
There was nothing funny about the film flickering against the
walls of the world's only ice cinema. It was a documentary about
the Northern Lights, which had refused to appear in their natural
theatre, the Arctic night sky, above us.
"With all this ice around I guess we should be showing a film
about the Titanic," he tittered, shivering on a cushion of reindeer
skins. The temperature in the most immense igloo this side of the
North Pole was -7C. Outside, the mercury was a little finger-width
away from ...