# Possible to Build a 700-Foot Wall of Ice?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-build-a-700-foot-wall-of-ice/681277>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 13, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-build-a-700-foot-wall-of-ice/681277 "2014-02-13T20:19:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-build-a-700-foot-wall-of-ice/681277/21 "2014-02-15T22:45:00Z")

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Creveases rarely go 50 meters down due healing of an ice mass of such size.

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-to-build-a-700-foot-wall-of-ice/681277/22 "2014-02-16T20:23:48Z")

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> [@grude](#):
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> The wall is explicitly said to be magical in origin, details left blank.

Either way, they did have an entire organization of construction people, so you could argue there was maintenance.

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