British artist Simon Beck alone created the huge patterns, which came in a range of designs from intricate snowflakes and spirals to cubes and rather more abstract creations, on frozen lakes in Les Arcs, France. Some of patterns span the size of six football pitches. Artist spent around 10 hours at a time to create giant 'crop circles' in the snow by painstakingly walking. And he used an orienteering compass to create the perfect geometric designs.

Mr Beck, an orienteer leader, has created hundreds of the artworks after ploughing his first at Christmas in 2004. He used what he described as a 'kind of reverse orienteering' to plot his intricate paths before walking along the route in a pair of snowshoes. He said: 'The main reason for making them was because I can no longer run properly due to problems with my feet, so plodding about on level snow is the least painful way of getting exercise.'














Source : dailymail.co.uk

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