The Igloo Experience

Instead of taking the chance to stay in a warm tent, the author decided to sleep in an igloo. Before she could even enter the thing, she had to dig out a trench to lead to the entrance. The igloo had rubber mats inside and a string across the top to hand up all of her goggles, glacier glasses, socks, and her thermometer. The way that igloos are built is the sleeping quarters is above the entrance and a trench is dug below it to create a cold sink. Even with the sleeping quarters elevated and the cold sink, the main priority is to keep your core temperature constant and warm. There was one night where she was trying to go to sleep and she encountered so many problems at once and she just gave up, she went into one of the tents in Jamestown and just went to sleep on the ground. That was the last night she stayed in an igloo, it had won.


This gives you an idea of how cold it is there.
Water freezing in mid air.