jim huli shows us the works of art. >> they spent the last five days scraping and sanding, cutting and carving creations into the snow. >> the sea certainent has a lot of scales. >> team lithuania has an environmental message. >> human intervention. >> finland's art is inspired by their homelandism. >> it's called the northern star representing the different phases of the sun. >> the russians have an olympic theme. team wisconsin will have a butterf butterfly. >> the butterfly travels the farthest of any insect or animal. >> they begin like this - a giant 12-foot high block of snow. one of standouts is tom day, a snow sculpting veteran. >> it's not my first rodeo. 19 years of them. tom's creation, team breaken ridge is winter fun. there's a dog down the hill with the father and so on the intertube. >> i'm taking out little by little. >> the rules dictate all must be done by hand. >> no power tools. >> to stay within the guidelines the articles came up with an arsenal of contraptions. >> this is a trowel that we put a nailer plate for a truss and use it as a snow scraper the the teams w

let's go to jim huli, who is live out there with a look at all thx what do you have there? >> what do we have here. a lot of sunshine, a beautiful rocky mountain sky and beautiful sculptures. they rapped up the work at 10:30. as you can see there's so many beautiful sculptures. so intricate and detailed. this is the one that has been created by the russian team. each has a theme. the theme for the russian team is the olympics. the upcoming sochi games, there's a hockey player and skaters. this is a local entry. this is winter fun, it has a sled ride. over here, coming all the way over here, this is an entry. this is from great britain, the theme is some of the great stop carvings of the massive buildings and churches throughout great britain. there are rules. some teams worked through the night, over the past five days. the rules mean you cannot use anything mechanical or electrical. so this is what some of the creations are that are used to come up and make some of the beautiful delicate designs. they have to come up with their own designs for the improvised tools. this is

. >> jim huli is there live for us. what do you have? >> this is something you don't need in new york. this is a special tool or saw to cut the snow in the snow competition. this was used by some of the students. the artist wrapping up the work. the publy is allowed to come through and look at the finished products. we have 16 teams from around the rules. 12 different countries, and each team has their own design and theme as well. >> they've spent the last five days scraping and sanding. cutting and carving their creations into the snow. >> team lithuania is designing an environmental message. >> because of human intervention, >> the art is inspired by the homeland. >> it's called the northern star. >> it represents different phases of the the sun. >> the russians have a butterfly theme. >> the butterfly travels the first of microinsect or animal. >> the masterpieces begin like that, ta 12-foot high block of snow. one of the compete tars is tom day, a snow sculpting veteran. 19 years. it's great. >> team breckenridge calls the creation

jim huli shows us some of the coolest works of art. >> they spent the last five days scraping and sanding, cutting their creations into the snow. >> team lith is unveiling an environmental message. >> this is called the northern star. it represents the different faces of the sun >> the russians have an olympic theme. team wisconsin's sculpture will be a butterfly. >> the butterfly travels further than any migratory insect or animal. >> they begin like that, a huge block of snow. one of the competitors is tom day. >> this is not my first rodia. 19 years of them. >> tom's team breckenridge call their creation winter fun. >> i have a dog running down the hill with his father and son on the intertube. what i have here is taking out little by little. here is the challenge, the rules dictate this has to be done by hand. >> to stay within the guidelines, they have come up with ans arsenal of contraptions. this is a trowel that we put a nailer plate for a truss on it, using it as a snow scraper. >> the teams work through the night under the glare of spotlight, racing the clock. >> it's a blast, a