Death traps for daredevils


Frenchman Mountain, where nearby an abandoned mine is located, in Las Vegas. — Las Vegas Review-Journal/TNS

THE US state of Nevada is home to more than 300,000 abandoned mines – mines that can kill you in an almost unimaginable number of ways.

But those mines from Nevada’s olden days are attracting a modern-day problem for state and federal officials in charge of taking care of those death traps: vloggers and YouTubers.

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