Remember snow can be practically air-tight so you will need to make sure there is a hole for air exchange and if the snow gets to heavy you'll be trapped or worse, the thing will collapse. (Snow is heavy). Not saying this is a bad product or anything, I'm just saying this as a precaution in case someone thinks this makes them indestructible.
I was going to comment this same thing!!! You definitely need ventilation to some extent or you might be protected from the elements but you most definitely won’t be waking up.
Except you won't freeze to death. The idea is based on the igloo which has been around for a very long time. The inuit don't freeze inside them. The thing about snow that is weird is that it's a great insulator. It blocks the wind and allows your body heat to warm the small area, making it surprisingly comfortable inside an igloo. The heavy snow is a valid point though as the thing would need to be able to withstand the weight of the snow. Snow is heavier than many people think. And you would need to make an air hole to get fresh air. But overall, I would rather be lost in the snow with this than without it.
@@sortaamy3003 The freeze to death comment is because 'there is no blizzard' ie no snowfall to "utilise snow capture" (quote from the video) ie you freeze because you're lying under a string mesh not an igloo. As a sidenote I genuinely don't know if this is how the device works - you just lie there and wait for snow to pile up naturally. But pretty sure thats what the original commenter understood and was poking fun at.
Enclosed causes breath humidity capture. You wake up drenched in your sweat. Move, yeah... Hope you can get that fire going. Fast. Igloos had a hole in top for a small whale oil fire in the center. The entrance even covered had air vent in.
Pretty sure if I have to use this puppy in an emergency then I will have a couple of predetermined expectations. 1. It's an emergency structure, if it preserves my life longer than I would last without it, I still may perish in time... but I tried. 2. In the case of emergency where I need to use this structure, I doubt I will be looking at going to sleep on purpose, mid terror while hoping to survive. 3. My breath should be in gas form, condensate on the surface of the structure and then freeze because it will become water vapor to water on ice. Dripping with breathe sweat while buried in ice means nothing to me. If this is a concern, don't touch the walls, like a tent. 😂 I would be more worried about suffocating before anything else, that and hiw to make a fishing pole
If you get a good Helly Hansen bodysuit with a few layers underneath, you can basically lay down in the snow and sleep relatively fine in -40 temperatures. Basically, if you're remote enough to need something like this, you're probably dressed well enough to not need it. Because it's so cold, it's extremely dry. Being dry, the temperature exchange between the air and the body is fairly low. It's the moisture that kills, such as from sweating. And no, the condensation won't just get trapped on the surface and freeze. Humidity is relative to temperature, roughly doubling every 10C. So if you're creating a pocket of warm air and breathing in there, it will saturate your clothes.
When would I use this ? When I've been a dumbass and forgot my tent ?.... but somehow, I remembered the emergency tent 😅 While I'm falling mid avalanche ? Or when I'm already covered ? OoooooK, while I'm in a blizzard and this is the ONLY thing I have......... many many times 😅 thank god this exists 🙏🏾
@@TheSophisticatedSavage a fire. Dry the ground out with fire, pitch up a shelter n bobs your uncle. Cold climates often see wood fires burn much cleaner due to the air density. In a high altitude environment with limited resources however, this little polar bear kinder egg is the best bet.
@@TheSophisticatedSavage Uhhh traditional bushcrafting survival shelters? There's many many pre existing shelters that have been developed over the years, and the best thing about them is you build them with the supplies you have on hand in the forest. You don't drag them out there with you.
@@mitchc4474a fire in winter can be the difference between life or death forsure but it doesn't replace a genuine shelter. Depending on weather conditions you still need to craft wind barricades so that you can actually have a fire. You can never properly account for a survival situation before you've experienced all the variables.
Will come in handy here in Australia for all the snow I’ve never seen in my 45 years 😂 they will make great Christmas gifts for my family and friends 👌🏽
Yeah, save room in your pack and just take a shovel. Pile of snow in the same shape. Dig out the middle big enough to fit in. Leave the hole downwind. You'll be just as protected and warm... Possibly more since there won't be any condensation
Yeah but I don’t think people want to waste time and energy digging up snow to make an igloo when they can just pull this gadget out. Shoveling snow especially if you aren’t a very big person can be really exhausting and uncomfortable. Had to shovel over a foot of snow some winters by myself back when I lived in Pennsylvania and I was a skinny kid. It’s not fun
It’s prettty surprising how warm it actually can be inside An igloo. Dad brought me and a friend snow camping one year and just happened that the guys leaving right after we showed up had built a very nice igloo already so we co-opted it and my friend and I slept in it perfectly warm just a sleeping bag on packed snow and were warm enough.
@@GetOhn there is a layer of ice formed inside, which gives the structure of igloo. The layer is created from melted snow, but due to how cold it is outside, the melted snow changes phases contantly.
Sounds true, but the part that doesn't click is how you slept on the bare ground. That's cold that saps your energy. The air might be mild, but touching the ground? It will never get warm, and if it does, it will melt and soak and saturate your bag. I've experienced both scenarios, and never again..😅 Now I use a 6R,10" pad or fur/pelts.
THANK YOU. Igloos are such a dam perfect example of human engineering in the face of solving a problem. We get confused looking at rocks trying to figure out how people stacked or moved them, when some of us figured out how to build houses out of snow.
I lived in down east Maine and we had a guy who was a drinker and homeless . He would cut down a balsam tree and break off the branches and shovel snow on top of it and he survived many 45 below zero years
That'd awesome!!! Hopefully he used the same shelter and not cut a tree everyday, and only used another tree when he would move locations,, but even so he could leave that 1 shelter for other homeless people to use, that's what I would do
One of the most essential systems is in a snow survial cave/tent is a ventilation system. You need an open inlet at ground level and a hole in the top to provide oxygen replenishment as you use it up. We lost some Aussie kids camped out in a snow cave just a few years ago due to not having ventilation holes. Usually you should leave the entrance open and stick a ski pole out through a hole in the roof to get flow through (makes you more visible to search parties too). The recent tragic sinking of the huge yacht in the Mediterranean was what they call dry drowning. The passengers who were trapped in their cabins died of asphixiation when the oxygen was used up. Edit: I just realised theres a top comment basically saying this..
Where are you getting that definition for dry drowning? The only definition I’m familiar with is referring to is lung injury after someone is submerged in water not suffocation/asphyxiation
It wasn't dry drowning it was asphyxiation. Dry drowning is drowning after previously being drowned because your lungs fill up with fluid. Or when there's a lung injury. @josephatkinson6280
@@penzaman811So, for the sake of clarity, the detail I found to be the most "awkward" wasn't the insinuation that it looked like an awkwardly simulated (un)birthing video. It was their statement starting with the word "getting". 😂
Well, you go outside, shake it or push the snow aside, and then go back inside. It sucks @ss, especiallyin the mornings, but you do what you got to do. 😅
I love all the ways Origami (folding} and Kirigami (cutting) can be practical❣️❣️❣️ That same stretching honeycomb form can be used instead of bubble wrap or big wads of paper to cushion even the most fragile items for shipping. Less wasted materials, less weight to pay postage for❣️
Great video, thanks for showing us more, like the inside or the process of covering it. Very informative, I think with the lack of info you provided nobody is going to buy one of these. 😊
It said snow capture, which means that it is designed to catch snow to build up the walls, and why do you need to look on the inside? I know for a fact you weren't going to buy this at all
Y’all some really clueless people, 90 people liked my comment insinuating my evaluation of the video not showing enough to market a product holds true. Again this video was short and pointless, anyone with a brain can see that. If you don’t like my opinion, keep it moving cause idgaf 😊.
@@usmelllikecheeze it’s funny how people keep justifying the video obviously you can make out what it is, but this video gives such a bad representation of the product. The point of my comment was why do they expect someone to buy it with such bad advertising?
Maybe it works well In flat terrain and when it's not too much snow. But if you find a slope, there's a chance the snow will be deep enough to dig a snow cave. Works even better and u don't need any tools (but a small shuffle helps)
The massive flaw is the whole damn thing. There is no screen of any kind between those holes. The wind and snow passes through without any effort and unless the plan is for you to pile snow on it yourself then the plan is still bad because the snow will just pass through the big ass holes and fill up the inside
Worst enemy I can think of here is dehydration/cooling effect. Whiteouts can last up to 1-2 weeks. When you eat cold snow, it will lower your body temperature, which requires fluid to keep you warm, but it can't because your body is too cold. Dehydration in cold places is a vicious death cycle. It can effectively be solved by always bringing a thermos. Then the contact with the ground, that will never become warm, not as critical.
As a faithful reader of National Geographic magazines, I always had the idea that the best way to shelter on Everest, Anapuena or K2, was with an igloo, especially because of the winds, I thought of ideas with light hexagonal surfaces, but this idea seems fabulous to me, it solves the weight problem perfectly. 👍👍👍💪
Only useful. IF it snows.. Snowless winter nights are often more bitterly cold than snowy ones. You still need the down - or fur- layers.. Nice artwork. Would be better with a ripstop outer layer to create a cellular double layer tent - it will still trap snow - You are welcome - the Consulting Invoice is in the mail.. jk.
This is how Amundsen almost died in Hardangervidda while preparing for his polar exploration: A snowcover is only good until you can come out. If it freezes eg. from the outside, it will turn the space into an ice grave, where you can suffocate unless there is someone who can save you from the outside. Amundsen and his brother were stopped by a blizzard, while they were waiting, the snow covered them, and froze from the outside. Roald was saved by his brother who somehow managed to get out.
I hate crossing when Hardangervidda is almost entirely ice. Skiing is like skating, especially when the wind picks up, which is universally unavoidable up there.
@dextersbeard3472 it was in steamboat springs, CO. We got 40ft of snow that year. We'll 476in. End of Oct through April started getting wet mid April and then dog caved in it to finish it off.
@msdarby515 like 94 95? Idk. I know the official mountain snowfall total wasn't as much, it was like 390 or something, base was over 100in, i think. Walls of snow to the ski lifts. That 40ft was our gauge in the backyard so I'm sure terrain, ie drifts, had a effect, but we did live right off the mt tho cause I would ski down throught some trees and pop out on that green run on the side on the map and go to the bus stop and take Christy 3 lift, I think,for the ride home. They just got almost 40 again in 23 and did over 40 in 07. I lived there for 3 years and it was 1 year we got hammered, then we moved cause dad was over shoveling.
That should be mandatory kit for anyone venturing into winter conditions where snow pack is the normal and severe weather is unpredictable where help could not be readily available. Alaska, Canada, Northern European, Russia, South Korea, Kamchatka peninsula.
You could still freeze to death in this thing. From a guy who regularly camps in sub freezing temps, this will protect from the elements but not from the cold. At best under heavy snow it might warm up to 35° from body heat. If you don't have an insulated sleeping bag and dry clothes nothing will protect you from hypothermia.
@@mortseyfrom October to May we have to have artic gear to survive in the event where we get exposed to the cold for longer periods -40 I don't see a real scenario where this is usable at least not in my line of work
When shelter is your only hope for survival or you freeze to death and it requires you to play with snow for an hour before you can even think about climbing in with all the snow that falls in and getting on with finally letting the body heat accumulate in the cavity you created. You're way better off a half dozen mylar sheets and wrapping yourself up like a burrito.
That's stupid as hell lol you're gonna freeze with blankets. This is so much better. Also if you carry blankets you're already carrying more weight than this. Some flimsy space blanket will NOT save you from squat 😂
@@pharaohsmagician8329 a mylar survival blanket weighs a few grams and fits in your pocket when neatly folded has saved more lives than you'd ever care to admit. Its space age technology. I wouldn't expect you to get it. They work miracles nonetheless. Especially when I already said to use a few and wrap yourself up like a burrito. Obviously you wouldn't hunker down on the hilltop the wind screaming by. You'd find a nook of sorts. Using the ridiculous contraption shown in video you'd have to dig up a bunch of snow anyways, so with the survival blankets, dig a small crater to hole up in with them. And let the falling snow bury your survival blanket burrito with insulation all the same.
Tell us you have no experience without saying you have no experience. I've been on the top of a mountain with the ice sleeting sideways in my face at the top of the tree line at 11,000 feet on new years day, predawn, at negative twenty degrees and my mylar survival blanket warmed me right up in a jiffy so you really have no idea what you're talking about.
@@jeffborders1146 lol if you were gonna sleep with that blanket and nothing else you would die. Should we go tell Inuit people who actually live up there to ditch their igloo shelters and just carry space blankets? Those are emergency tools when you have nothing else. Better to just carry a shelter like this one instead of a fragile aluminum foil blanket. You'd be warmer in the tent than with a blanket anyways
That's very clever, from an engineering point of view. It is, in effect, a geodetic structure, like the air-frame of a wartime Vickers Wellington-bomber. Very very good strength the weight properties, with maximal usable internal space, and permits a shape to develop with a close-fitting size, helping it's effeciency in keeping you warm. Brilliant! The Wellington's geodetics were designed by Barnes Wallace of "bouncing bomb" fame, designing air-ships in the 1930's.
Nope. Been there, done that (snow cave) at a scouting high adventure survival training camp. On the MN CAN border. Wind-chill peaked at -56F. Was +32F inside the cave after not much time. You still need a good sleeping bag, or parka&snowpants. And a tiny air-hole. Snow is an amazing insulator as long as it’s below freezing.
How many people winter camp or live in areas where there is polar bears? This is an emergency shelter design for skiers and backpackers, ice, climbers and other people who like winter sports most of them are going to be in the mountains not out on the ocean flows and Tundra..
But also be very careful where you build one: like 20 years ago there was a terrible accident in Oregon where a guy had built a snow shelter into an embankment only to wake up to being murdered by one of those big road snow clearing machines that chews up the snow on the side of the roads like on your way up to the ski resort and shoots it further to the side as it goes. He was just a ski bum and was crashing there. You’d think he would have considered something like that but he apparently didn’t and paid the ultimate price for his stupidity.
@@RiverRocc well, it’s actually more of a case of, he really should have known better. Eh was a ski bum. He was well aware there were those big snow blower/ road cutter machines that are Constantly keeping the roads open up there on Mt. Hood. And I think it turned out he may have Been drunk and was supposed to crash in a trailer that night but ended up going to thr igloo he had built instead. Very sad though indeed.
You slowly run out of air and die. Also if it doesnt snow, your just in a non insolated tent. And youll freeze to death. Too much snow = death Not enough snow = death Just the right amount of snow = this trash product
Reduces the work involved in making a traditional quinzhee. In arctic conditions, you want to work as little as possible, because sweat buildup can rapidly lead to hypothermia. And it’s likely a lot safer if used correctly.
So airtight means you could possibly suffocate. It will only support so much snow before it collapses so if it is snowing you will be buried alive and it doesn't release moisture which means everything inside will either be covered in a thin layer of ice or it will be soaking wet. I think the guy who designed this hasn't been in any arctic conditions.
I was camping in West Virginia during the 96 snow blizzard over 5 ft of snow in less than a day I had a simple 4-man tent zipped up with a small airflow hole and lit a candle that was warmer than being a trailer with heat.
Remember snow can be practically air-tight so you will need to make sure there is a hole for air exchange and if the snow gets to heavy you'll be trapped or worse, the thing will collapse. (Snow is heavy). Not saying this is a bad product or anything, I'm just saying this as a precaution in case someone thinks this makes them indestructible.
I was going to comment this same thing!!! You definitely need ventilation to some extent or you might be protected from the elements but you most definitely won’t be waking up.
"Air tight"... 🤭
Sorry. That's a term also used for something you probably aren't talking about lol
This is for basic snow. I wouldn’t think that we’ll be in 15 ft of snow. If it’s covered it’ll be by inches and not feet
Designed SPECIFICALLY for only having 3" of snow on it.
No it is.... but oh well lol
Kinder surprise for polar bears
comes with a toy inside
Jajaajjaa
😂😂😂
Lolol you win the internet!!!
😂😂😂
When you emerge the next morning, you have big, full, beautiful butterfly wings.
I dont get it?
@@katmask3149 dead . Maybe
@@katmask3149 It's the process of metamorphosis. You know the life cycle of a butterfly? It's basically that.
Your comment is funny and beautiful.
Примёрзшие к спине😂😂😂
The future of home ownership in Canada
Sadden for the Canadians . Vote the dictator out Peace!
it’s better than LA California people will be sleeping on the streets and the city will smell like fermented armpits and turds
Wait are we gonna be living in igloos for real damn
And don't hire the other dictators, either. Like cuntservatives. @@deborahsanderson697
For everyone but the jihads who will live in apartments for free, at the taxpayers dime
Its like a twinkee wrapper for polar bears.
10/10 honestly wouldnt survive any real tundra because bodies have a threshold where it struggles to build heat
paired with a good sleeping bag mine you can run me over with a tank and is a makeshift boat hardly used in its time
I like that!
Twinkee wrapper??!! Omg!!😅 I never thought it that way.
😂😂😂😂 was about to say that
If there isn't a blizzard you freeze to death. If there's a heavy blizzard you suffocate.
unless you have an air hole?
@@TheFallenHippie420You kinda don't. That's the idea. The snow covers the entire thing 😂
You'd never get a chance to rest. You'd constantly have to uncover the air hole. Its not ideal@@TheFallenHippie420
Except you won't freeze to death. The idea is based on the igloo which has been around for a very long time. The inuit don't freeze inside them.
The thing about snow that is weird is that it's a great insulator. It blocks the wind and allows your body heat to warm the small area, making it surprisingly comfortable inside an igloo.
The heavy snow is a valid point though as the thing would need to be able to withstand the weight of the snow. Snow is heavier than many people think. And you would need to make an air hole to get fresh air.
But overall, I would rather be lost in the snow with this than without it.
@@sortaamy3003
The freeze to death comment is because 'there is no blizzard' ie no snowfall to "utilise snow capture" (quote from the video) ie you freeze because you're lying under a string mesh not an igloo.
As a sidenote I genuinely don't know if this is how the device works - you just lie there and wait for snow to pile up naturally. But pretty sure thats what the original commenter understood and was poking fun at.
That man looked so refreshed coming out, like he had been born again..
Yoooo
It does look like that
It be fun to hotbox that
There it is. Classy comment of what we were all thinking. Well done 👏
@@RandolphTheWhite1 thankfully it's not just me
A plastic-snow composite sarcophagus. Simply brilliant.
All this awesomeness and yet all I can think of is how much it looks like a snow woman giving birth to a human.
All I can think about is you being completely wrapped up for the polar bears
Saaaaaame re vagina 😂
😂😂😂 I can’t unsee this now
It definitely looks like a snow woman’s va-jay-jay
😂 I thought I was the only one scrolling down looking for the comments if anybody thinks like me😂
So THIS is how Alaskan's are born!? Fascinating.
😂sure looked like it
Lol
😂 yes!
😂😂
HAAHAAAHHA AAAHHAHAAH HAAHA ✌️🇺🇸
Polar Bear: "Oh I just love these things! Crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside"!
I lift. You grab.
Was that too complicated for you Carl?
Cow tools ???
I recently found the re-enactment of the grizzly man recording… this brought up some ptsd.
Far side reference??
@@knopSponk Mine was. I remember it from the 80's. ☮️
😅😅😅 I need to clean my mind... it's like you are being born every time you get out. Really makes you thank God for a new day.
😂 that’s what I was thinking
Yeah, definitely had to check the comments after watching this one... glad Im not alone in thinking what I'm thinking
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Me too
Seeing what I’m seeing?
I thought so too..
I thought i was the only one thinking that
That shape is great when it is open and looks like a VGA from a distance love it
😂😂😂 my thot exactly!
yeah, like a rebirthing
Yup!😂
Yeah maybe pick a color other than pink or red so it doesn't look like you're being born every time you emerge.
Thank goodness I was scrolling the comments and thought I was the only one who saw it 😂
Enclosed causes breath humidity capture.
You wake up drenched in your sweat.
Move, yeah...
Hope you can get that fire going.
Fast.
Igloos had a hole in top for a small whale oil fire in the center. The entrance even covered had air vent in.
Pretty sure if I have to use this puppy in an emergency then I will have a couple of predetermined expectations.
1. It's an emergency structure, if it preserves my life longer than I would last without it, I still may perish in time... but I tried.
2. In the case of emergency where I need to use this structure, I doubt I will be looking at going to sleep on purpose, mid terror while hoping to survive.
3. My breath should be in gas form, condensate on the surface of the structure and then freeze because it will become water vapor to water on ice. Dripping with breathe sweat while buried in ice means nothing to me. If this is a concern, don't touch the walls, like a tent. 😂
I would be more worried about suffocating before anything else, that and hiw to make a fishing pole
more importantly: an air hole??
@@louisrafaelcom
That is partly what my fishing pole is for.
If you get a good Helly Hansen bodysuit with a few layers underneath, you can basically lay down in the snow and sleep relatively fine in -40 temperatures.
Basically, if you're remote enough to need something like this, you're probably dressed well enough to not need it.
Because it's so cold, it's extremely dry. Being dry, the temperature exchange between the air and the body is fairly low. It's the moisture that kills, such as from sweating.
And no, the condensation won't just get trapped on the surface and freeze. Humidity is relative to temperature, roughly doubling every 10C.
So if you're creating a pocket of warm air and breathing in there, it will saturate your clothes.
When would I use this ?
When I've been a dumbass and forgot my tent ?.... but somehow, I remembered the emergency tent 😅
While I'm falling mid avalanche ? Or when I'm already covered ?
OoooooK, while I'm in a blizzard and this is the ONLY thing I have......... many many times 😅 thank god this exists 🙏🏾
Was developed by gynaecologist?
It is made from IUDs.
Came here for the vagina jokes😂
I thought I was the only one who noticed 💀
Fellas, you know what I’m thinking? Nuff said.
Snowgina
😂 I mean… I thought I was the only one lol
Emerging from the lips of mother nature
BACK INTO THE WOMB I GO
She needs some sun
I don't know if I could trust getting out of it, especially after a heavy snowfall. This person had help getting out, even after a light snowfall.
You just gonna freeze to death? What's the other option?
@@TheSophisticatedSavage a fire. Dry the ground out with fire, pitch up a shelter n bobs your uncle.
Cold climates often see wood fires burn much cleaner due to the air density.
In a high altitude environment with limited resources however, this little polar bear kinder egg is the best bet.
@@mitchc4474gonna need a big fire up on a mountain with 20 feet of snowpack
@@TheSophisticatedSavage Uhhh traditional bushcrafting survival shelters? There's many many pre existing shelters that have been developed over the years, and the best thing about them is you build them with the supplies you have on hand in the forest. You don't drag them out there with you.
@@mitchc4474a fire in winter can be the difference between life or death forsure but it doesn't replace a genuine shelter. Depending on weather conditions you still need to craft wind barricades so that you can actually have a fire. You can never properly account for a survival situation before you've experienced all the variables.
People thinking if there's snow, there's polar bears lol
It’s called a joke you auts
It's because he said it's for arctic conditions
@@FD_and_Bthat doesn’t mean they can’t be used in a heavily snowy and very cold area that doesn’t have polar bears lmao
@@Piiratekang.6823 no shit
I’m reading the comments there hilarious 😂
A polar bear treat! Soft on the outside, warm & gooey on the inside!
... extreme artic conditions...
Words never to come out of my mouth.
Unless "I will never go where there is" is said before it 😂
TV: And after the continuing snowfall we can expect extreme arctic conditions for the rest of the week...
Brightly: "Let's go camping!"
Will come in handy here in Australia for all the snow I’ve never seen in my 45 years 😂 they will make great Christmas gifts for my family and friends 👌🏽
Could it work with our red dust plains? 😂
And spoken like a true ……autistic from down under ‘’ …..sorry Australian’’’
@@paulkorchok6567 just close our eyes and pretend it’s snow 😆
Why would anyone want to sleep in the snow anyway? 😂🤷🏻♀️
The second clip where the guy sweeps the snow and opens it, that looks like something else. Am I the only one who sees it?
I think the first one is just the internal framework. The second has a protective cover. But, basically, a tent.
Yeah uh .. everybody sees it
Like a virgin touched for the very first time 🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶
@@Redbird4912keep your innocence 😅
It's a guy wearing head lamps.
The six people in need of this thank you
Yeah, save room in your pack and just take a shovel. Pile of snow in the same shape. Dig out the middle big enough to fit in. Leave the hole downwind. You'll be just as protected and warm... Possibly more since there won't be any condensation
True!
Yeah but I don’t think people want to waste time and energy digging up snow to make an igloo when they can just pull this gadget out. Shoveling snow especially if you aren’t a very big person can be really exhausting and uncomfortable. Had to shovel over a foot of snow some winters by myself back when I lived in Pennsylvania and I was a skinny kid. It’s not fun
Okay cupcake
Shovel is heavier/bulkier
@@lentilswoo shovel has more than one use
It’s prettty surprising how warm it actually can be inside An igloo. Dad brought me and a friend snow camping one year and just happened that the guys leaving right after we showed up had built a very nice igloo already so we co-opted it and my friend and I slept in it perfectly warm just a sleeping bag on packed snow and were warm enough.
How does the roof not melt?
@@GetOhn there is a layer of ice formed inside, which gives the structure of igloo. The layer is created from melted snow, but due to how cold it is outside, the melted snow changes phases contantly.
Sounds true, but the part that doesn't click is how you slept on the bare ground. That's cold that saps your energy. The air might be mild, but touching the ground? It will never get warm, and if it does, it will melt and soak and saturate your bag. I've experienced both scenarios, and never again..😅
Now I use a 6R,10" pad or fur/pelts.
THANK YOU. Igloos are such a dam perfect example of human engineering in the face of solving a problem. We get confused looking at rocks trying to figure out how people stacked or moved them, when some of us figured out how to build houses out of snow.
it is freezing inside but freezing is warmer then -25 outside
I lived in down east Maine and we had a guy who was a drinker and homeless . He would cut down a balsam tree and break off the branches and shovel snow on top of it and he survived many 45 below zero years
Inspiring level of independence.
What part of Maine? I'm visiting soon
Nothing better than a good drink when its cold
That'd awesome!!! Hopefully he used the same shelter and not cut a tree everyday, and only used another tree when he would move locations,, but even so he could leave that 1 shelter for other homeless people to use, that's what I would do
@@jasminepetal3972have you been to Maine!? The whole state is trees
Wow that is wickedly cool❤❤❤ I would love to try one of those out I bet they're expensive
I feel like this would be like when you're super cold in bed so you put the blanket over you but then breathing becomes difficult. 😂
One of the most essential systems is in a snow survial cave/tent is a ventilation system.
You need an open inlet at ground level and a hole in the top to provide oxygen replenishment as you use it up.
We lost some Aussie kids camped out in a snow cave just a few years ago due to not having ventilation holes.
Usually you should leave the entrance open and stick a ski pole out through a hole in the roof to get flow through (makes you more visible to search parties too).
The recent tragic sinking of the huge yacht in the Mediterranean was what they call dry drowning.
The passengers who were trapped in their cabins died of asphixiation when the oxygen was used up.
Edit: I just realised theres a top comment basically saying this..
Where are you getting that definition for dry drowning? The only definition I’m familiar with is referring to is lung injury after someone is submerged in water not suffocation/asphyxiation
@@deresands7411the ship sank, they drowned without drowning, hence dry drowning.
This life saving info can't be repeated enuf ❤
It wasn't dry drowning it was asphyxiation. Dry drowning is drowning after previously being drowned because your lungs fill up with fluid. Or when there's a lung injury. @josephatkinson6280
@@swoopincrow sooooo, you mean when the quinzhee has been settled you poke holes in any of the alveola of your choice for air?
where is the ventilation hole?
Great question.🤔 Just sealed yourself in a O2 deprived element.😬
@@davep153far better then a heat deprived environment.
@@Cyborg_Lenin Would still probably lead to the same result
The snow that covers it is mostly made up of air so as the temperature rises inside the snow on the inner layer converts back into fresh air
@DURO-5 what?
And you ladies and gentlemen just witnessed fist grown man birth. 😂
I've seen that aerial view a few times 😅
It does look familiar she was a redhead also 😂
The way he came out... It's almost like being reborn again.😂😂😂😂
Yum, just the idea is making me feel warm.
@@Dana-bp1hklol yep makes my mouth water!
I scrolled through comments just to see if anyone else noticed 😂😂😂
Getting looks exactly like erhm...being born...
Getting what?
Erm, awkward....
@@bluenothing720 Dude, right...
@@Dreadtheday
@@penzaman811So, for the sake of clarity, the detail I found to be the most "awkward" wasn't the insinuation that it looked like an awkwardly simulated (un)birthing video. It was their statement starting with the word "getting". 😂
Imagine if it snowed heavily
Bro will go back to hibernation😂
Bears frogs fish and other life forms have survived can mankind do it???😮😮😮Wow. Wonder what GOD has planed for US ALL???
@@waldemarcomas5149 what😕
Well, you go outside, shake it or push the snow aside, and then go back inside. It sucks @ss, especiallyin the mornings, but you do what you got to do. 😅
@@willek1335yeah you won't be getting out at all buddy
@@josephif let em cook
I love all the ways Origami (folding} and Kirigami (cutting) can be practical❣️❣️❣️
That same stretching honeycomb form can be used instead of bubble wrap or big wads of paper to cushion even the most fragile items for shipping. Less wasted materials, less weight to pay postage for❣️
Great video, thanks for showing us more, like the inside or the process of covering it. Very informative, I think with the lack of info you provided nobody is going to buy one of these. 😊
How could they? There's no link, name, etc.
It said snow capture, which means that it is designed to catch snow to build up the walls, and why do you need to look on the inside? I know for a fact you weren't going to buy this at all
I'll buy it
Y’all some really clueless people, 90 people liked my comment insinuating my evaluation of the video not showing enough to market a product holds true. Again this video was short and pointless, anyone with a brain can see that. If you don’t like my opinion, keep it moving cause idgaf 😊.
@@usmelllikecheeze it’s funny how people keep justifying the video obviously you can make out what it is, but this video gives such a bad representation of the product. The point of my comment was why do they expect someone to buy it with such bad advertising?
This is a nice idea! But just make sure there is an ample amount of space for air circulation. 😊
That shelter better stop looking all caked up in the snow 👀
Love how the enterance doesnt stop snow falling in when you enter or leave.
For anyone have seen Alien Romulus, this is excellent addition to cosplaying Xenomorph.
Stolen, lol
Maybe it works well In flat terrain and when it's not too much snow. But if you find a slope, there's a chance the snow will be deep enough to dig a snow cave. Works even better and u don't need any tools (but a small shuffle helps)
The old version takes a long time.... It's called the igloo. And Artic places cannot use house... They use structure of a semi circle for comfort.
Didn’t know she was chill like that
Sheeit, I learned that when I was less than 5 with our 1960’s blizzards in New York. We kids would make igloos to keep warm.
Back when children were not allowed in the house until the street lights came on😂🎉🎉🎉 fun times
The Eskimos have done this and lived for how long??? Now yo have ask alonda to use the toilet😮 etc. Wonder if NOSTRADAMUS PREDICTED THIS???😮😮😮
I grew up in Ithaca new York and we loved our igloos too
On the way to school walking uphill both ways right??
It's a gathering of the ancient one's!
Have it is slightly better than not having it. The massive flaw is that there is no bottom. Laying on the snow will pull all your body heat away.
It has a transparent bottom
I noticed that too
Snow has crazy insulating abilities.
Hi
Plus the Inuit ONLY use very special compacted snow that traps a lot of air!
The massive flaw is the whole damn thing. There is no screen of any kind between those holes. The wind and snow passes through without any effort and unless the plan is for you to pile snow on it yourself then the plan is still bad because the snow will just pass through the big ass holes and fill up the inside
Worst enemy I can think of here is dehydration/cooling effect. Whiteouts can last up to 1-2 weeks. When you eat cold snow, it will lower your body temperature, which requires fluid to keep you warm, but it can't because your body is too cold. Dehydration in cold places is a vicious death cycle. It can effectively be solved by always bringing a thermos.
Then the contact with the ground, that will never become warm, not as critical.
As a faithful reader of National Geographic magazines, I always had the idea that the best way to shelter on Everest, Anapuena or K2, was with an igloo, especially because of the winds, I thought of ideas with light hexagonal surfaces, but this idea seems fabulous to me, it solves the weight problem perfectly. 👍👍👍💪
I'm waiting for the Temu version 😂
What is the price of this?
This could save lives for mountain climbers or anyone out in severe weather. Outstanding!!❤❤
unless theres too much snowfall while youre asleep and it buries you deep and you suffocate because you didnt make an air hole to beath from
@@yunekoVTand that's worse than freezing to death in 5 min how? The entrance is the chimney
Nice, now I have a tent for when I go camping in places I shouldn't be.
The Polar express .....fast food for polar bears😂😂😂
Only useful. IF it snows.. Snowless winter nights are often more bitterly cold than snowy ones. You still need the down - or fur- layers.. Nice artwork.
Would be better with a ripstop outer layer to create a cellular double layer tent - it will still trap snow - You are welcome - the Consulting Invoice is in the mail.. jk.
This is how Amundsen almost died in Hardangervidda while preparing for his polar exploration:
A snowcover is only good until you can come out. If it freezes eg. from the outside, it will turn the space into an ice grave, where you can suffocate unless there is someone who can save you from the outside.
Amundsen and his brother were stopped by a blizzard, while they were waiting, the snow covered them, and froze from the outside. Roald was saved by his brother who somehow managed to get out.
looks like a lot of space inside.. if you carry a pocket pick axe you're good
I hate crossing when Hardangervidda is almost entirely ice. Skiing is like skating, especially when the wind picks up, which is universally unavoidable up there.
I lived in a igloo in our front yard for like 6 months when i was 12. It was cool as hell. Had a tv and my sega.
Where TF do you live?
That’s awesome. 🤩
@dextersbeard3472 it was in steamboat springs, CO. We got 40ft of snow that year. We'll 476in.
End of Oct through April started getting wet mid April and then dog caved in it to finish it off.
@@JH-zo5gkWinter of 96-97? We had an 80 inch snow pack, but got something like 200 inches that winter.
@msdarby515 like 94 95? Idk. I know the official mountain snowfall total wasn't as much, it was like 390 or something, base was over 100in, i think. Walls of snow to the ski lifts. That 40ft was our gauge in the backyard so I'm sure terrain, ie drifts, had a effect, but we did live right off the mt tho cause I would ski down throught some trees and pop out on that green run on the side on the map and go to the bus stop and take Christy 3 lift, I think,for the ride home.
They just got almost 40 again in 23 and did over 40 in 07. I lived there for 3 years and it was 1 year we got hammered, then we moved cause dad was over shoveling.
Bro was born twice
The suffocation 5000
Oh yeah, there is that problem. What say you, inventor?
😂😂 he was birthed
Earth pu$$y
😅 There is always someone who comes first
So a tent covered in snow?
a COMPACT tent covered in as much snow as it could possibly be covered with
Yeah and only takes forever to accumulate that snow and you die before it’s finished.
@@net343 So in other words .
A Tent covered in snow .
how about oxygen? does it still goes in?
@@scottsound4711tent? You mean a rag with a stick?
Absolutely amazing I think people who live in very cold places should have one in their vehicle 🚗 each ❤❤❤
I didn't know the Innuit had origami techniques. Surprising.
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Haha same here. 😂
Me too lol totally looks like a vagina lol!!
😂😂😂
That should be mandatory kit for anyone venturing into winter conditions where snow pack is the normal and severe weather is unpredictable where help could not be readily available.
Alaska, Canada, Northern European, Russia, South Korea, Kamchatka peninsula.
You could still freeze to death in this thing. From a guy who regularly camps in sub freezing temps, this will protect from the elements but not from the cold. At best under heavy snow it might warm up to 35° from body heat. If you don't have an insulated sleeping bag and dry clothes nothing will protect you from hypothermia.
Betting you could use this to make a debris shelter as well. Depends on where the opening is
@@mortseyspace blankets. One below you and one on top of your sleeping bag.
Does it come with a big straw? So you can breathe too.?!
@@mortseyfrom October to May we have to have artic gear to survive in the event where we get exposed to the cold for longer periods -40 I don't see a real scenario where this is usable at least not in my line of work
I don’t think people understand how few polar bear deaths there are a year.
When shelter is your only hope for survival or you freeze to death and it requires you to play with snow for an hour before you can even think about climbing in with all the snow that falls in and getting on with finally letting the body heat accumulate in the cavity you created. You're way better off a half dozen mylar sheets and wrapping yourself up like a burrito.
Do both, for when you lights go out and put piles of blankets to keep the warmth without the weight.
That's stupid as hell lol you're gonna freeze with blankets. This is so much better. Also if you carry blankets you're already carrying more weight than this. Some flimsy space blanket will NOT save you from squat 😂
@@pharaohsmagician8329 a mylar survival blanket weighs a few grams and fits in your pocket when neatly folded has saved more lives than you'd ever care to admit. Its space age technology. I wouldn't expect you to get it. They work miracles nonetheless. Especially when I already said to use a few and wrap yourself up like a burrito. Obviously you wouldn't hunker down on the hilltop the wind screaming by. You'd find a nook of sorts. Using the ridiculous contraption shown in video you'd have to dig up a bunch of snow anyways, so with the survival blankets, dig a small crater to hole up in with them. And let the falling snow bury your survival blanket burrito with insulation all the same.
Tell us you have no experience without saying you have no experience. I've been on the top of a mountain with the ice sleeting sideways in my face at the top of the tree line at 11,000 feet on new years day, predawn, at negative twenty degrees and my mylar survival blanket warmed me right up in a jiffy so you really have no idea what you're talking about.
@@jeffborders1146 lol if you were gonna sleep with that blanket and nothing else you would die. Should we go tell Inuit people who actually live up there to ditch their igloo shelters and just carry space blankets? Those are emergency tools when you have nothing else. Better to just carry a shelter like this one instead of a fragile aluminum foil blanket. You'd be warmer in the tent than with a blanket anyways
I would like to see more of how it works
Polar bears love them. Crunchy on the outside. Warm and chewy on the inside.
Stolen word by word, bar by bar fr
@@viletures - "Stolen" implies ownership. Who owns it?
@@Lee137able my neighbor's teacher, Mr David
@@viletures - Wow! I didn't know someone could "buy" parts of the English language. How old are you, 13?
@@Lee137able older than your mom for sure 😏
That's very clever, from an engineering point of view. It is, in effect, a geodetic structure, like the air-frame of a wartime Vickers Wellington-bomber. Very very good strength the weight properties, with maximal usable internal space, and permits a shape to develop with a close-fitting size, helping it's effeciency in keeping you warm. Brilliant! The Wellington's geodetics were designed by Barnes Wallace of "bouncing bomb" fame, designing air-ships in the 1930's.
It has holes in it? How does it not suffocate you 😂
Well apparently you have enough oxygen until you Do wake up.
That's just the skeleton
This advertisement isn't about breathing, it's about keeping the body warm.
-29 inside -30 outside
Nope. Been there, done that (snow cave) at a scouting high adventure survival training camp. On the MN CAN border. Wind-chill peaked at -56F. Was +32F inside the cave after not much time. You still need a good sleeping bag, or parka&snowpants. And a tiny air-hole. Snow is an amazing insulator as long as it’s below freezing.
A polar bear will still know where you’re at
How many people winter camp or live in areas where there is polar bears? This is an emergency shelter design for skiers and backpackers, ice, climbers and other people who like winter sports most of them are going to be in the mountains not out on the ocean flows and Tundra..
Please lemme know when and where TF he mentions polar bears?
Yea lol so I guess just stay outside in the cold then right? Come on xD
I'd sleep in there. Minus polar bears.
It is like being reborn.
But also be very careful where you build one: like 20 years ago there was a terrible accident in Oregon where a guy had built a snow shelter into an embankment only to wake up to being murdered by one of those big road snow clearing machines that chews up the snow on the side of the roads like on your way up to the ski resort and shoots it further to the side as it goes. He was just a ski bum and was crashing there. You’d think he would have considered something like that but he apparently didn’t and paid the ultimate price for his stupidity.
Bro wtf that's just a bad case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time...
@@RiverRocc well, it’s actually more of a case of, he really should have known better. Eh was a ski bum. He was well aware there were those big snow blower/ road cutter machines that are Constantly keeping the roads open up there on Mt. Hood. And I think it turned out he may have Been drunk and was supposed to crash in a trailer that night but ended up going to thr igloo he had built instead. Very sad though indeed.
It's like someone tried to make a tent out of paper hats
Come on Man! The overhead view of the Red one looks like a VAG! 😂😂😂😂😂
What happens if there is a lot of snow and it traps that object?
They won't answer it bro
You slowly run out of air and die. Also if it doesnt snow, your just in a non insolated tent. And youll freeze to death.
Too much snow = death
Not enough snow = death
Just the right amount of snow = this trash product
That object may be found during break-up.
Don't worry, a polar bear will come dig ya out.
@@trits3415 don't worry you will get your 10 bucks that the other guy promised for writing this comment. Idiot . Sellout
Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen today so far
Till a polar bear showed up. Hhhmmmm a warm meal wrapped.
Reduces the work involved in making a traditional quinzhee. In arctic conditions, you want to work as little as possible, because sweat buildup can rapidly lead to hypothermia.
And it’s likely a lot safer if used correctly.
You'll need a breathing tube/ chimney, if the tent is fully covered by snow, else you may suffocate.
It’s all fun and games until that dude with a dirtbike sees this ramp looking hump on the floor 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So airtight means you could possibly suffocate. It will only support so much snow before it collapses so if it is snowing you will be buried alive and it doesn't release moisture which means everything inside will either be covered in a thin layer of ice or it will be soaking wet. I think the guy who designed this hasn't been in any arctic conditions.
That’s a nice Snowgina ya got there
Genius 😂looks like alien 👽 technology. Very cool 😎
They literally show the guy having to be dug out of the thing in the ad. Awesome product!
Behold, the snow womb!
Inspired by science, observation and technology. Thank you.
Me watching this in a tropic country:
👁️👄👁️
That is ingenious remarkably high text work of people with brains
It looks like it works better than the poncho that I had in the Marines .
the moth pupa experience
It’s like a warm Jamaican Patty for bears. Very considerate.
Bros getting rebirthed
I was camping in West Virginia during the 96 snow blizzard over 5 ft of snow in less than a day I had a simple 4-man tent zipped up with a small airflow hole and lit a candle that was warmer than being a trailer with heat.
Nothing is more authoritative than an Australian telling about snow survival
I’m telling my kids this is how Eskimos are born
That orange color really made it outstanding in the middle of snow 👀
Inside igloos,it can get as warm as about 50°-60° depending on situation & supplies.
The toys in the old kinder egg be like