Visitors at the ‘mini colosseum’ built from ice slabs cut from a frozen river in Chilling village, in India’s Ladakh region on Feb 7, 2022. Photo: AFP
High in the barren Indian Himalayas, artists are chainsawing blocks of ice from a frozen river creating what they hope will be the beginnings of India’s answer to China’s Harbin International Ice Festival.
So far the Kangsing collective have created what they call a “mini colosseum”, a cafeteria and a sauna near the appropriately named village of Chilling in the northern region of Ladakh.
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