Ice climbing meets. . . um, stage lighting and theatrics? Check out this crazy scene from Minnesota last weekend, where the organizers of a climbing festival at the Sandstone Ice Park used plastic “rope lights” connected to a car battery to illuminate frozen vertical ice and bring out the nocturnal, axe-wielding hordes. —Stephen Regenold
Photo by Peter Lenz
Photo by Matt Holland
Photo by Brenda Piekarski
Photo by Brenda Piekarski
Photo by Matt Holland
Photo by Brenda Piekarski
In the day! Photo by Sean Foster





