The Strange, Sci-Fi Sounds of Skating on Thin Black Ice

This gives new mean­ing to “skat­ing on thin ice.” In Swe­den, a film­mak­er named Hen­rik Trygg likes to take his chances skat­ing on pris­tine sheets of black ice, mea­sur­ing only five centimeters/two inch­es thick. It’s a risk. A nat­ur­al thrill. It’s also quite a sen­so­ry expe­ri­ence. Just lis­ten to the “high-pitched, laser-like sounds,” of which sci-fi films could be made.

Watch Tryg­g’s film, “The Sound of Ice,” above. And, below, a ver­sion anno­tat­ed in Eng­lish by Nation­al Geo­graph­ic.

via The Kids Should See This

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