<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Organisers have given the go-ahead for large numbers of revellers to leave the Burning Man festival in Nevada after wet conditions eased.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They said people could begin leaving the desert site at noon (19:00 GMT) but suggested delaying until Tuesday to prevent congestion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Heavy rain had created a mud bath. Of some 72,000 people stranded, 62,000 were still there at noon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Organisers also said a man's death on Friday was unrelated to the weather.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Emergency services were called to help the man, said to be about 40 years old, but he could not be resuscitated, they said. The local sheriff's office announced earlier it was investigating.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Burning Man festivalgoers on the mood from the mud</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The event's traditional finale - the burning of an effigy - was postponed to Monday evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A driving ban at the site was lifted on Monday afternoon. "Please know that while conditions are improving and roads are drying, the playa is still muddy and may be difficult to navigate in some neighborhoods and down certain streets," organisers said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The rainstorm that hit the Black Rock Desert near the end of last week is thought to have been the longest, heaviest rainfall since the festival began more than 30 years ago.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Martyna Sowa, a dancer who was booked to perform at the event, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she was surprised at how bad the conditions became.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It was a really strange experience," she said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Revellers, who are expected to be largely self-sufficient as part of the festival's ethos, were told to take shelter and to conserve food, fuel and water.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But the bad weather meant the portable toilet facilities were temporarily out of use, because service vehicles were unable to drive on the mud to empty them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We were originally told we wouldn't be able to leave until Tuesday but people who really have to go have been able to leave," said Ms Sowa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While many remained on site, some chose to hike 5 miles (8km) through the mud to the nearest road. The event's organisers arranged for buses to take people from the road to the nearby city of Reno - but some people say they had to pay for rides or hitchhike out of the area.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Organisers said a ride was not guaranteed and urged people not to walk to County Road 34.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other revellers took the boggy conditions it in their stride - dancing in the mud and holding karaoke parties.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I'm having a great time," Jazz Korona told the BBC.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By Sunday, however, the sense of exhilaration had been replaced by a growing air of exasperation, with people increasingly keen to leave.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Faye, a Burning Man participant who lives in London, told the BBC she has been left "covered in mud for the past three days".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"There are no showers here," she said. "The only thing you can do is wash with baby wipes inside your tent."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The unusual rainstorms came towards the end of the nine-day festival, when the biggest crowds arrive to see the grand finale - the burning of the giant wooden effigy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This was scheduled to take place on Sunday but has been delayed by one day. Many of the festival's other events, including Ms Sowa's, had to be cancelled.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even before Burning Man officially started on 27 August, it was hit by the remnants of Hurricane Hilary - prompting organisers to close the gates to early arrivals.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Burning Man is one of America's most well-known arts and culture events, in which visitors create a temporary city in the middle of the desert.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was founded in June 1986 and was first held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 1990.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tickets can be very hard to get and festivalgoers sometimes interview to get into popular camps and have to prove their commitment to its ideals. 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