14 Winter Images to turn You into Ice

Overhanging and overheating. Gordon McArthur, during a challenging mixed route in Bull River Canyon, BC, Canada.

Wanna see how sharp the edges on your skis are? Andrzej Bargiel has a (not so?) fun way to find out – hanging out on the side of a small hill of rock-hard ice in the Himalayas. Dangerous? Less dangerous than other places he’s probably done this.

Ice and light combine to create an incredible, surreal image.

The sun shining through ice at the Lake Baikal. The lake – one of the consistently coldest in the world – is nearly entirely devoid of plant or animal life, meaning it produces crystal clear ice as seen above.

The Godafoss – one of the most famous waterfalls in Iceland – in mid-winter. It’s name literally means ‘waterfall of the gods’, and it’s over 12m high and 30m wide.

An ice climber explorers a very cold – and possibly old – cave, likely inside a glacier.

This is somewhere you don’t want to fall down – unless you’ve got a pair of ice axes and crampons to climb out with.

Haven’t heard of ‘fat bikes’? They’re the easiest way to go biking where one normally would ride there skis. Where is this frozen waterfall? It’s a secret.

Camp 1 in Manaslu, Nepal, in October, 2014. 5,800m of altitude. Some places in the world aren’t lacking for snow – ever.

Pawel Karczmarczyk in Rjukan. Ice climbing is about knowing how to use your tools. A solid swing of his ice axe sends cracks spider-webbing out into the ice block.