Mexicans win snow sculpture contest in Breckenridge

 For Second Consecutive Year

Newsroom El Comercio de Colorado

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A team of Mexican sculptors, led by Carlos Miguel Ramírez Pereyra, won first place in the 30th annual International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge in northeast Colorado. This is the second consecutive victory by the same team. Overall, this is the third Mexican team to receive first place in this prestigious competition. Ramírez was part of the Mexican team that won this same competition in 2011.

“The title of the sculpture is ‘Greed.’ It features a gluttonous king in the act of devouring food while sitting in a pile of it. The work aims to remind us that there is a thin line between wanting more and having enough,” said Ramirez to El Comercio de Colorado. Ramírez and his colleagues carved this sculpture out of only hand tools from a 20-ton block of snow. They sculpted the work in two days while competing against 15 other teams.

From Colima

Ramírez, who trained as an architect, was born and raised in Colima, “the city of Palm tree.” It is a city with a hot climate in the Mexican southwest. Ramírez learned the art of snow sculpting outside of his native Colima, and has even participated in similar festivals in Russia, China, Finland, France, and Canada. Ramírez and his team recently won second place in a competition in China, and first place in a competition in Finland. Ramírez will travel to Canada the first week of February to participate in another competition.