LOST IN THE DUST
Feb 03, 2020
5 minutes
Words KEVIN EG PERRY @KevinEGPerry
Photographs
SCOTT LONDON @
scott.london
NOT LONG AFTER I REACH THE DESERT, I REALISE IT IS trying to kill me. The land has been baked hard by an unrelenting sun. The wind whips the alkaline dust into angry dervishes. The playa seems to stretch out to infinity. It is too hot and too dry here for life to ever feel welcome. This is Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, 1,000 square miles of absolutely nothing. It is so flat and so empty that you might come here if you were trying to set a land speed record, or launch a rocket into space. What kind of maniacs would look at this alien void and decide to throw a party?
We arrive in convoy. It is the last week of
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