3/17/2005: Massive ice sculpture in Alaska... collapses

[Buckethead]

Originally Posted by BigV

From the story: "Reeves expects to have accumulated around 80,000 tons of ice..."

It crushed itself.

You can see evidence of just how heavy and hard the ice was pressed, by looking at the brilliant blue parts in the wreckage of the last photo. That's the same blue you see in glaciers due to the extreme pressure compressing the ice.

Actually, that was blue dye (in the ice tower, not the glaciers).