I used to help teach a winter survival shelter class many years ago. We always ended the weekend with the class building igloos after digging out small snow caves and building shelter berms. It was critical to not build the igloo too high nor too wide in diameter, or two people would not be able to warm it up enough with their body heat and a small stove or candle inside. We only used three tiers of main blocks before filling in the top blocks. The first layer were started at a slant right away. There was only enough room inside to lay out and get two packs in. While the temp outside was well below freezing , the igloos, if built small and compact, would easily get to 38F with no stove going, and up to 45F when cooking food or running the stove for heat. Good memories.

They had crazy good snow blocks, perfect for making igloos. For the blocks to make that sound, it need to be frigid cold outside and the snow really well packed...

all the sounds of feet crunching snow had me going crazy... sounded like you guys made it outta styrofoam

Man, am I ever glad I ran across this one! Have always wanted to see one built!

when i was in the boy scouts we built igloos similar to this one with the entrance below the ice shelf which is critical for retaining interior heat, but we built individual radial 'spokes' that each person slept in, so we would have between 4 to 8 scouts sleeping in a 10 foot diameter igloo with nobody sleeping inside the actual domed area. with a few candles burning in the center they were really comfortable, especially if it was windy outside. we made our own snow knives out of 1/4"x3" aluminum flat bar, the blanks were bolted together and then run through a table saw with a dado to cut the teeth, and the rest was left up to the individual scout to make the handle and finish the knife however they wanted.

You know its cold when the snow squeaks!

That's hard work... I'm getting exhausted by just watching this video.

Many years ago I finally managed to make one of these. I live in the UK so its rare that we get enough snow to even think about building one, but one year we had a really deep fall overnight so I decided to have a try. It wasn't as big as this one, but I did manage to finish it. Then I ran inside to get a camera so I could take a photo, but when I came back outside it had collapsed

3:18 "oh, shit! camera is recording gotta look busy"...lol

I love that sound, maybe I'm weird.

Finally i see someone build it properly so the cold air goes to deeper part what is next to entrance and there is rised part where all warm air rises

Up in the frozen wastes a well built igloo would last a few years. They were often accompanied by rock works in a specific area. They served as landmarks and shelters for hunters. Quite often igloos were part of winter quarters for the eskimo peoples.

i just wanna go up to that thing and smooth it out perfectly

They sound like Pingu

All this time I thought styrophoam was made in some factory

Big Respect for you people! From the squeak of the snow, I can tell it's cold!

I've always wondered how to build an igloo. Thanks for sharing this video!!

what has happened to my life that I'm watching 20 mins of people building an igloo

I’ve never known completing the roof inside the room. So amazing. And also they use ice blocks as tender marble. Cool video.

Great video. NIce job building that igloo.

OMG, I get exhausted just looking at this! But some feat!!

Awesome!

I would always love the tropical climate, sunny and rainy only through out the year without cold ice. Greener of course. :)

excellent work! I wish we got the kind of snow to make an igloo.

For a 10.y old video this has amazing quality.

Such neat, very snow. I am very impress. wow. :3

Most satisfying video I've seen In my life

I now really want those fur gloves😍😂

I love that sound

the guy in the yellow is a classic new york worker

what am i doing with my life

THAT IS STIR FOM

igloos are awesome and I only imagine they get even sturdy as more snow piles on it an fills the whole securing it

You know its cold when the snow squeaks under your feet.

And this is why Inuits need chainsaws.

As I started to watch the video ..a thought came to mind... The guy with the yellow on the coat must be the foreman..lol everyone else working while he stands around watching...😂😝

How incongruous...caterpillar tractor background to saws and long blades building a shelter.

I like the sound from the cold ice block.

Polar bear feet for gloves! They look super warm

when it crunches under your feet it is the right snow

Beatiful work

wow👍🏻 how can top roof be stable and solid😮

Igloo lesson from the masters!!!! :D

That’s a mighty igloo

Great way to get yourself knocked out. Best to have practical skill in this.

For some reason I love these sounds

That snow sounds ridiculously cold.

Thanks for this video seriously I didn’t know igloos were real

I love how everytime one starts to help

BEAUTIFUL WORK ......we got a lot to learn from you all

the SAW is just waving around there

It gave me the chills

Damn it only takes 18:24secs to build an igloo

I made one of these and it fell on top of me and my sister 😂

I wonder how it feels if you’re sleeping and the dome comes crashin down

it´s beautiful!!!

Güzel oldu tebrikler. Yerleşik hayata geçersiniz artık :)

it is so awesome

The dryer snow is the more it squeaks

sheesh it sounds cold as can be we rarely have that screechy of snow here in south dakota and when it is its well below zero

This is so cool,what do you sleep on?The floor must be so cold. What wild animals are there. This is a great video. Is this Hudson’s bay?

It looks so funnn

That sounds like cutting styrofoam

That is a pretty COOL igloo. Get it? No? Ok.

very interesting indeed! but i'll stick to my condo

That's sound is driving me nuts!

Next time I hear that sound I'm jumping out my window

Sounds like Polystyrene rubbing together.

That sounds like Styrofoam being sliced😧😡😂

After watching other people build igloos on youtube, you guys were BY FAR the BEST ~ fastest & most efficient with a vastly superior end product. But hey, who builds an igloo better than an Eskimo right? I do think it's comical that they lived in a tent while building the igloo! Just sayin...

This is a lost Art......They sleep in tents

Oh man that makes me want to go home leave school for a while, I miss the cold it gets very hot in Japan

Building the Pantheon in snow...

just mute and x2 speed, that will make sure u can enjoy that vid and sleep good at night

Its Sad That In Our Country It Does Not Snow ;-;

It looks and sounds like thermacoal !

AMAZING

What an irony, snow looks so soft and sweet and easy to turn it into anything, play with it etc but if you look on a different aspect, it is most people's cause of death as well, so merciless and bitter. Wow.

역시나 극지방의 눈은 최상의 벽돌 그 자체군요......

Watch in 2x speed.

that's some cold ass snow!

I love the sound

Always wonder 🤔 how those ice Block Stays Perfect horizontally ↔️ and not falling ↘️⤵️

1:09 i feel for dude when he reaches for that saw and gets shut down

very cool..good to know

That sound is cause of the cold.has to be 10 below or better for that type of snow.

Awesome

I hate that sound.... grrrrrr...

Excellent

Yo i'm canadian. These guy's are in the North of Canada, a place where it's incredibly cold... temperature that are so cold, that it's painful when you go outside. It's maybe -45celcuis where they are right now. They use snow that is very compacted to construct the Igloo. You can eitheir built Igloo, with this kind of snow, or if you have something less compacted, you can build a Quizy, wich is similar but a different technic.

Super :) what is the temperature ? °C ?

Doing the top few layers must be exhausting.

Man that scraping hurts my teeth. Thats dry snow and hard. Would want that colaps on a fellow at night.

I've never seen snow I'm from Brazil ... cold here has snow 8 (

Why the roof doesn't fall?

shouldn't it be recessed into the ground with a tunneled entrance and a raised interior section for sleeping?

make more igloo videos and stay over night in it

i like how the god dam guy has a FUCKING SAW

Sounds and looks like styrofoam.

Quick question. Do we need snow to build the igloo?