When building an igloo for six hours in minus 54 degrees, Dylan Clark adheres to this ratio: For every second his hand is exposed to the cold, it takes 10 minutes back in the glove to warm it.

Scientifically, the best way to build an igloo is how the Inuit in the North still do it. Here's how to construct your own shelter out of snow.

At least the Algonquins had the Inuit perfectly pegged. About 25,000 people strong living in an area roughly the size of western Europe, the Inuit quite literally are “eaters of raw meat.” ...

Inuit women building an igloo in 1926. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images. This structure is the most complicated of the three and takes some effort. Instructions here are for the most basic of igloos.

Sakiagak’s parents were born in igloos and he learned to build the snow domes with his father growing up on the open tundra as a child. Now, Sakiagak, a 57-year-old Inuit, builds them to teach ...

KANGIQSUJUAQ, Quebec -- Adami Sakiagak, his tongue poking out of the side of his mouth in concentrated effort, trimmed the edges on a block of snow above his head. Ice crystals cascaded around him ...

How to Build An Igloo. By Lexi Krock; Posted 02.01.06; NOVA; Igloo construction is something anyone can learn to do. Indeed, during his two years studying arctic survival skills from the Netsilik ...

The Styrofoam igloos and other housing models tested in the 1950s were designed to fit in with traditional Inuit mobility, subsistence practices and mimic existing forms of Inuit housing.

The Styrofoam igloos were the brainchild of James Houston of the Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources, who, according to The Age, came upon the idea of using Styrofoam, a ...