U.K. man donates amputated, frost-bitten toes to famed ‘Sourtoe cocktail’
A U.K. man who lost three toes to frostbite in a Yukon race says he can’t think of a better place for the digits to go than into people’s drinks.
Nick Griffiths plans to donate his amputated appendages to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon, home of the famed Sourtoe Cocktail.
“It would be quite a novelty one day … to say ‘your granddad’s toe is in a bar in Canada,’” Griffiths said from his home in Bolton, England.
Griffiths said he spent a year training for the Yukon Arctic Ultra, a 483-kilometre race that follows the Yukon Quest trail — one of the world’s toughest sled-dog races.