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Step inside the world's first Icehotel with Vogue Scandinavia

By Eleanor Kittle

The entrance to Icehotel, located in Jukkasjärvi in Sweden’s Lapland, is quite unassuming – merely two reindeer hide doors with antler handles. Photo: Kristian Bengtsson

Up in Swedish Lapland, every year, Icehotel comes into existence, its materials harvested from the frozen Torne River. This winter, Vogue Scandinavia was given the chance to experience sub-zero sleeping and take in all that the global attraction has to offer. From frozen books and snowmobiles to sauna rituals and ice plunges, this is what awaits at the wintry hotel