Fairbanksans Larry and Annie Colp were crowned Sunday as the 2025 Fairbanks Pioneer King and Queen Regents, by the Fairbanks ...

2. (c) a layer of snow formed in a single drift Almost any snow will work for an experienced igloo builder in a pinch, but the best kind is a deep layer of packed snow from the same drift.

“They were saying, ‘Some of these buildings are worth saving. We shouldn’t destroy all of this,’” said Joan Skilbred, former president of the Pioneers of Alaska Women’s Igloo No. 8.

Igloo' is an Inuit word for 'snow house', and 'Inuit' is the word that describes the people who live in the frozen lands of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. The Inuit people are perhaps one ...

Ask almost any experienced igloo builder and he'll tell you that igloo construction is something everyone can learn to do. Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the ...