The ice hotel phenomenon, born in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden in the 1990s, has been gradually picking up steam (as it were) in the northern hemisphere over the years, with hotels built each winter in a half-dozen countries. At the moment, the world's northernmost ice hotel, operating annually since 2000, is inNorway's Finnmark region, some 250 miles from North Cape. We visitedSorrisniva Igloo Hotel recently and found it vaguely reminiscent of the ‘Fortress of Solitude’ in the movie Superman…and needless to say, it was cold... keep reading