How to Make a Perfect Igloo - Ray Mears World of Survival - BBC

Survival expert Ray Mears is here to teach you how to make the best igloo

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[kaykko]

I made a house out of black ice today

I'm going to call it a niglu

[Rsfeva1250]

12 people can't build arches without internal supports.

[MegaCheezyWeezy]

I am going to build an igloo and hotbox the fuck outta it.

[elliotsvideos]

@kaykko racist.

[MrXtremie]

@Rsfeva1250

you mean 14

[SMBwings]

Why do poeple put on funny accents when translating into English

[etphonehome2915]

If Ray had to cut him self out, there would not be any iglo left.

[solobackpacking]

Take my word for it.

This is a craft, don't expect in a emergency situation to be able to build a igloo like his.

[PineMartyn]

@SmoothCriminalAaron

It's called a quinzhee. Less skill required to make a quinzhee, but they aer less stable, more prone to collapse, typically much less roomy, and unless the walls are of uniform thickness and a proper catenary arch is created, a quinzhee will sag and the ceiling get lower and lower until it's unusable after a few days. But igloos require a certain kind of compacted, wind-swept snow that's hard to find. I use the Icebox system, for any kind of snow.

[PineMartyn]

@surfin4

The hole in the ceiling is to let air circulate, to let moisture escape (otherwise it condenses on the walls and wets the floor at the perimeter), and to permit smoke and gases to escape from lamps or stoves.

[PineMartyn]

@ZebbMassiv

I've camped and slept in both quinzhees and igloos. A quinzhee is a snow shelter that doesn't quite compare with an igloo in terms of comfort and stability, but they take little skill to make. Just do a search for the word quinzhee and you'll find videos on it. I have a video on how my wife and I build our igloos on my channel.

Cheers,

-Martin

[Max0Inq]

"We can raise the temperature to about freezing point" :O