Skating on thin ice
Earlier this winter, Henrik Trygg filmed his friend Mårten Ajne skating on less than two inches of lake ice. The result was a mini-documentary that captured the eerie, beautiful sounds of...
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My name is Henrik Trygg, and I'm a Swedish outdoor photographer. I've been ice skating for 25 years, and I think Mårten has skated 35 years. The lake is just south of Stockholm. It's just 2000 meters long and 50 meters wide. The sound was really extraordinary that day, because the lake is so narrow, and the ice was so thin and the quality was so good. It's just two, two-and-a-half day old ice. It's very pristine in the beginning. It's not too think. It's alive. You feel it you hear it. So this is like the Holy Grail. It's like if the ice is singing. You hear it when it's getting thinner. The pitch gets higher. The frequency gets higher. So, we just started recording. You hear the noise best when you skate 10 to 20 me...
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My name is Henrik Trygg, and I'm a Swedish outdoor photographer. I've been ice skating for 25 years, and I think Mårten has skated 35 years. The lake is just south of Stockholm. It's just 2000 meters long and 50 meters wide. The sound was really extraordinary that day, because the lake is so narrow, and the ice was so thin and the quality was so good. It's just two, two-and-a-half day old ice. It's very pristine in the beginning. It's not too think. It's alive. You feel it you hear it. So this is like the Holy Grail. It's like if the ice is singing. You hear it when it's getting thinner. The pitch gets higher. The frequency gets higher. So, we just started recording. You hear the noise best when you skate 10 to 20 me...
