Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live like an Eskimo? The Iglu-Dorf hotel chain can give you a feel for it – ...

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.

The family has done plenty of snow sculptures in the past, but Szekely isn’t sure they can top the rainbow igloo. “I think we might have peaked,” she said with a laugh.

With its focus on the ingenious craft of igloo building before it becomes too late to record it, this is a meditative and poetic sensory immersion in a landscape of ice and snow, an elegy to a ...