Team Mongolia (Munkherdene) won gold Friday at the 28th International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge with a piece called “Secrets,” depicting women and their secrets.
Last year’s winner, Team China, took silver with the “Thinker,” depicting an orangutan contemplating an apple, and Team USA-Wisconsin (Vogt) took bronze with “Dance Devine,” depicting leaves intricately intertwining.
For the contest, 16 four-person teams spent many careful hours combined on each sculpture, crafted from a 25-ton, 12-foot-tall block of snow over the course of four days before Friday’s judging deadline.
According to the Breckenridge Tourism Office, a committee sends 250 invitations in June and receives artists’ submissions in August.
The teams came from all over the world, representing countries like China, India, Italy, Estonia, Mongolia and Mexico. Four came from the United States, including one out of Colorado and another from Breckenridge.
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