for the last 13 years, geilo has played host to norway's ice music festival, but this year after tooy unseasonably warm years, the organisers decided that enough was enough. so on i go, upwards almost 500m in altitude, to the festival's new home in finse. oh, you really feel it, see it in the air, it is cold here. and it is this cold, the icy conditions and the elevation that drew polar explorers like shackleton to train here before they went on their expeditions. and people still come here for that reason today. word is it is going to reach a low of —24 celsius tonight. so we had better rug up. but what makes this festival extra special is that the instruments are actually made on the day from nearby ice. among the line—up this year is everything from ice horns to ice drums and ice didgeridoos. the concert is only hours away and here you are making the instruments. this has got to be an unusual thing for a musician? for me it is not, but for most musicians it is. good sounding ice is the most difficult part. you can'tjust go to your freezer or go to the nearest lake. it's with ice a

as jan reaches his stop, i settle in. 3.5 hours from oslo, bergensbanen pulls into geilo, but that isination. for the last 13 years, geilo has played host to norway's ice music festival, but this year after too many unseasonably wa ram winters, the organisers decided that enough was enough. so on i go, upwards almost 500m in altitude, to the festival's new home in finse. oh, you really feel it, see it in the air, it is cold here. and it is this cold, the icy conditions and the elevation that drew polar explorers like shackleton to train here before they went on their expeditions. oh, you really feel it, see it in the air, it is cold here. and it is this cold, the icy conditions and the elevation that drew polar explorers like shackleton to train here before they went on their expeditions. and people still come here for that reason today. word is it is going to reach a low of —24 celsius tonight. so we had better rug up. but what makes this festival extra special is that the instruments are actually made on the day from nearby ice. among the line—up this year is everything from ice hor

for the last 13 years, geilo has played host to norway's ice music festival, but this year after tooell, it's nearly 20 years since the first time i tried ice, and i found the sound so fantastically beautiful. what is this instrument over here? this is an iceophone. the sound is lovely, isn't it? you like it? yeah. plays iceophone. it is lovely. any chance i could have a go? mmm, very carefully. very careful, i promise i'll be careful. i also promise to show no ability whatsoever. you may as well give it to a kid. plays iceophone. it works! this is great. so as evening approaches the finishing touches are fast being made around the site. i really like it 'cause it's kind of the sound of nature. so it doesn't sound like anything else you have ever heard. we don't get to practice, so the music gets made on stage in front of the audience, and that is really special, and people are like, what, is that possible? it's almost not possible, so it's pretty cool that we can do it. i guess there's a lot of folk music in it. it's very nordic, with the ice and snow and the cold winters. just in t