Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik tribe of Inuit on King William Island, polar explorer Roald Amundsen became an expert igloo builder, even though at ...

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 ...

Inuit usually built their winter villages on ... 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 ...