Thousands of Burning Man attendees readied to make their "exodus" on Monday as the counter-culture arts festival in the Nevada desert ends in a sea of drying mud instead of a party around its flaming effigy namesake, Reuters reported. Rain over the weekend turned the once hard-packed ground to pudding. One person died at the event in the Black Rock Desert, authorities said on Sunday, providing few details.
In Photos: Nevada Burning Man Festival Exodus
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This photo, provided by Maxar Technologies, shows an overview of the center camp at the Burning Man festival, Sept. 4, 2023, in the Black Rock Desert north of Reno, Nevada.
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Attendees known as "burners" strike down their Unicorner camp before new rainfalls in a muddy desert plain, Sept. 3, 2023, after heavy rains turned the annual Burning Man festival site in Nevada's Black Rock desert into a mud pit.
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A Burning Man participant walks her bike through the mud near the exit, after a severe rainstorm left tens of thousands of revelers attending the annual festival stranded in mud in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, Sept. 3, 2023.
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A pair of Teva sandals are seen on a chest in the middle of tents sitting in a muddy desert plain, Sept. 3, 2023. Tens of thousands of festivalgoers were stranded in deep mud in the Nevada desert after rain turned the annual Burning Man gathering into a quagmire.