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Sounds of Skating on Thin Ice

Oct 3, 2021
1 min read

Otherworldly sounds: This small lake outside Stockholm, Sweden, emits otherworldly sounds as Mårten Ajne skates over its precariously thin, black ice. “Wild ice skating,” or “Nordic skating,” is both an art and a science. A skater seeks out the thinnest, most pristine black ice possible - both for its smoothness, and for its high-pitched, laser-like sounds.



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