A U.K. man who lost three toes to frostbite in a Yukon sled race says he can't think of a better place for them 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.
Griffiths says he spent a year training for the eight-day Yukon Arctic Ultra race, one of the world's toughest sled-dog races.
He says he was disappointed to have to drop out of the race when a ranger identified frostbite on his ear, nose and fingers, but he didn't realize how bad his toes were until they were examined in hospital.
Griffiths says doctors and nurses at the Whitehorse hospital where he was treated told him about the Sourtoe Cocktail, which is a shot of alcohol of the drinker's choice along with a genuine dehydrated toe.
He's keeping the toes in a jar filled with medical-grade alcohol at home in Bolton, England, until he figures out a way to send them to Dawson City.
