

Here is what to know: What is Burning Man?īurning Man is a festival described as “a global ecosystem of artists, makers, and community organisers who co-create art, events, and local initiatives around the world”. Many of the 64,000 people who remained on site are expected to stay for the festival’s namesake effigy to go up in flames, an event slated for Monday night at 9pm (04:00 GMT Tuesday) - one day past schedule. “Exodus operations have officially begun in Black Rock City,” the festival’s website announced on Monday afternoon. An unusual late-summer storm has turned a weeklong, counterculture festival in the western United States into a sloppy mess.Ībout 70,000 Burning Man partygoers got stuck in deep mud in the northern Nevada desert amid dwindling water and food supplies.īut Burning Man organisers reopened the road leading out of the remote Nevada desert festival on Monday, allowing tens of thousands of people to escape the rain-drenched festival site.
