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Photos: Winners of the Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships

Let the ice chips fall where they may!
Image: geometric ice sculpture
Team Germany won the competition with "APEX-zero gravity." Melissa Andrews/Breckenridge Tourism Office
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The 34th annual International Snow Sculpture Championships brought teams from around the globe to Breckenridge this month to carve 12-foot-tall, 25-ton blocks of snow into art...all by hand. And when all the ice chips had fallen, the judges pronounced Team Germany's "APEX-zero gravity series" the winner on January 24.

The sculptures will remain on display through January 29. But if you were unable to make the drive up I-70, you can see the work right here:

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The victorious German team.
Melissa Andrews/Breckenridge Tourism Office
Team Mexico's "Descendant" got the silver from judges; it also won the Lothar Luboschik Art's Choice Award.
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Team Mexico's "Descendant" was the People's Choice.
Melissa Andrews/Breckenridge Tourism Office
Team India won the bronze for "Mind in Meditation."
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Team India's "Mind in Meditation."
Melissa Andrews/Breckenridge Tourism Office
Viewers also got to vote, and Team Korea won the People's Choice award with "In the History We Remember."
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Team Korea's "In the History We Remember" won the People's Choice award.
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Here are more scenes from the 34th annual International Snow Sculpture Championships.
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Sculpted kissing swans (we think).
Aaron Dodd/Breckenridge Tourism Office
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A carefully balanced ice sculpture.
Aaron Dodd/Breckenridge Tourism Office
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A human octopus in ice?
Aaron Dodd/Breckenridge Tourism Office
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Ice, ice babies at the Snow Sculpture Championships.
Aaron Dodd/Breckenridge Tourism Office
Learn more about the championships here.