Whether it was Elsa, Bobby “Iceman” Drake, or just good ole Mother Nature, an amazing sight was created in northern China when a waterfall the width of a football pitch and the height of Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue froze into a vertical super-highway of ice.
Temperatures dipped below -15 degrees celsius (+5 F) in the Shanxi capital Taiyuan, but it wasn’t enough to keep away locals (and a video-recording drone) from witnessing the winter wonder.
Locals weren’t adventurous enough to climb the icy waterfall, even though ice climbing is a global activity with its own grading system.
While the world’s tallest waterfall, Angel Falls in Venezuela, is located in a place where (hopefully) it will never dip below freezing, the award for best frozen waterfall goes to Niagara Falls on the US-Canadian border, with one daredevil climbing it last year.
Waterfalls are not the only piece of winter art made by Elsa, Iceman, or Mother Nature. A car in Buffalo, New York was found covered in a unique ice sculpture after being parked by the great lake of Erie.