Bristol students build 25ft snow sphinx
If you go down to the Bristol Downs today you are in for a big surprise – a 15ft high sphinx made out of snow.
The structure, which is about 25ft long, was built by a group of University of Bristol students to raise money for Comic Relief.
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Ashley Coates, 19, of Leigh Woods, began building the snow sculpture on Friday with four pals.
Over the next three days they worked on it for 14 hours, and were expecting to finish it on Monday.
Ashley, formerly of Clifton College and currently on a gap year, said: "When the snow came down heavily we decided we had got to do something, so decided on a sphinx.
"We put floodlights up so we could see it.
"I think it's been worth the effort, we've put out a red box and have started collecting money for Comic Relief.
"We got £20 in the first hour."
4 Comments
by susan, Bristol
Monday, February 09 2009, 10:30AM
“In all fairness there was nothing else to do!”
by Enlightened, Bristol
Monday, February 09 2009, 10:15AM
“I've never thought about giving money to charity before, but this wonderful gesture has made me look at such things in a totally different light.”
by Shh, Under the stairs!
Sunday, February 08 2009, 10:37PM
“Good to see the students doing something useful with their time!”
by luke skywalker, clevedon
Sunday, February 08 2009, 9:29PM
“looks more like Jabba the Hut to me. great effort for comic relief though !!”