Frozen Lake Baikal: Kristina Makeeva’s Photos of Cracks, Bubbles and Ice
White cracks branch across deep blue ice, and pale bubbles hang frozen beneath the surface like scattered coins. Photographer Kristina Makee...
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Lake Baikal Ice Hummocks: How Turquoise Ridges Form and Where to See Them
Every March, Lake Baikal's frozen surface breaks into fields of turquoise slabs, some standing upright like broken glass, others piled ...
Jim Denevan’s Lake Baikal Snow Circles: Giant Land Art on a Frozen Lake
In March 2010, Californian land artist Jim Denevan and a small crew drew a field of giant circles across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal ...
Lake Baikal in Winter: Clear Ice on the World’s Deepest Lake
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia is the deepest and oldest lake on Earth: 1,642 m at its deepest point and around 25 million years old. In w...
Lake Baikal Ice Drummers: Irkutsk Percussionists Play the Frozen Lake
When a group of percussionists from Irkutsk gathered on the frozen surface of Lake Baikal and began striking it with their hands, the ice an...