Two guests and five workers have been stuck at the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge, Kirkbymoorside, North Yorks, since the area's first snowfall on Nov 26, in what is being called "the ultimate lock-in".
With snow drifts outside the pub up to 16 feet deep, vehicles have also been buried, meaning escape has proved impossible from the 16th-century freehouse, which at an elevation of 1,325ft advertises itself as the country's fourth-highest pub.
Katie Underwood, 18, who has been a waitress at the Lion Inn for four years, said: "The novelty is definitely starting to wear off."
Paul Crossland, the pub's co-owner, put a warning on the Lion Inn's website urging customers not to attempt to reach the building. Stranded workers managed to email photographs from inside the pub.
Mr Crossland has been unable to travel the short distance from his nearby home, and council snowploughs have repeatedly failed to reach the inn.
Spirits have remained high despite the sub-zero temperatures, largely because the seven trapped occupants are sharing the huge bar that would usually cater for 150 people a night.
Miss Underwood said: "Most of the windows in here are blocked up, but we've got a door open at the back to get some air when we need to.
"All of the snow had compacted together against the walls of the pub because it had drifted so much.
"The boys that are here have been skiing on trays down the massive slopes. Now they're all out trying to dig their cars out of the deep snow."
She added: "It's been absolutely freezing, but we've been lucky that it's a pub and B&B that we're trapped in.
"We've got plenty of coal for our fire which has been great, and there's rooms upstairs so we have somewhere to sleep, and plenty of food."
Chefs Danny Butterworth, 18, and Stuart Dalton, 25, and bar staff Jo Bell, 20, and Robert Sunley, 22, are snowed in at the Lion, along with a couple from Sheffield who were holidaying in the area.
The occupants were not expecting the thaw to have arrived by Saturday night - their ninth - and have passed the evenings playing board games.
Staff have also taken the time to do maintenance work and other odd jobs.
Read more at The Telegraph
Paul Crossland, the pub's co-owner, put a warning on the Lion Inn's website urging customers not to attempt to reach the building. Stranded workers managed to email photographs from inside the pub.
Mr Crossland has been unable to travel the short distance from his nearby home, and council snowploughs have repeatedly failed to reach the inn.
Spirits have remained high despite the sub-zero temperatures, largely because the seven trapped occupants are sharing the huge bar that would usually cater for 150 people a night.
Miss Underwood said: "Most of the windows in here are blocked up, but we've got a door open at the back to get some air when we need to.
"All of the snow had compacted together against the walls of the pub because it had drifted so much.
"The boys that are here have been skiing on trays down the massive slopes. Now they're all out trying to dig their cars out of the deep snow."
She added: "It's been absolutely freezing, but we've been lucky that it's a pub and B&B that we're trapped in.
"We've got plenty of coal for our fire which has been great, and there's rooms upstairs so we have somewhere to sleep, and plenty of food."
Chefs Danny Butterworth, 18, and Stuart Dalton, 25, and bar staff Jo Bell, 20, and Robert Sunley, 22, are snowed in at the Lion, along with a couple from Sheffield who were holidaying in the area.
The occupants were not expecting the thaw to have arrived by Saturday night - their ninth - and have passed the evenings playing board games.
Staff have also taken the time to do maintenance work and other odd jobs.
Read more at The Telegraph
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