Residents of Bethel, Maine, USA, and surrounding towns, built a snow woman measuring 37.21 m (122 ft 1 in) tall, over a period of one month, completing her on 26 February 2008.
13 million pounds of snow were used to build Olympia the snow woman. She was only a few feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty.
Eyelashes were made from eight pairs of skis, 48-ft-wide fleece hat, 8-ft-long nose made from chicken wire and painted cheesecloth, lips made from five red car tires, arms made from two 30-ft-tall spruce trees, 6-ft 6-in-wide snowflake pendant, 130-ft-long scarf, three 5-ft-wide truck tires as buttons
This week’s Guinness World Records:
Tuesday, 31 January
Wednesday, 1 February
Thursday, 2 February
Friday 3 February
Last week’s records:
All records – 22 January – 27 January
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