Joshua Clark: The man who deliberately swallowed a toe in bizarre cocktail ritual is a famous Hurricane Katrina survivor Josh Clark is the only person to have deliberately swallowed the toe He has stared death in the face and come out the other side to tell his story - so swallowing an amputated human toe should be child's play. The man who paid $500 for the privilege of gulping down a pickled toe was today named as Joshua Clark, who is believed to be a Hurricane Katrina survivor from New Orleans. Reports emerged on Wednesday about the incident, which took place at the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Canada, on Saturday night. Clark decided to take on the area's infamous Sourtoe Cocktail Challenge - wherein an amputated toe, which has been preserved and pickled, is dropped into a glass and for $5 the customer must drink the shot and have the toe touch their lips. Josh Clark listens to the rules of the Sourtoe Challenge: 'You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow. Down in one: Josh tilts his head back to ensure the entire contents of the glass - toe and all - disappear But Clark went one step further and drank the toe down with his whiskey, then threw $500 on the table - the fine imposed by the saloon should anyone swallow it. Clark was said to have been in Yukon Territory for the summer and had just got his rent deposit back. A video of the incident emerged today on CBC Yukon and shows the toe-curling moment the pinkie disappeared from the glass. Clark's eyes widen as it goes down his throat before he washes it down with another drink. He then stands up, raises his arms in the air in triumph and says, 'I did it, it's down', before throwing $500 on the table to a visibly shocked Terry Lee, the 'Toe Captain' of the night. Lee said the latest toe was 'mummified' with salt, and plonked into drinks for brave patrons about 30 to 40 times per night. The fine has since been raised to $2,500. Josh Clark remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the collapse of the levees. He refused to leave the city at the dangerous and devastating time and tape-recorded impressionistic interviews with fellow storm survivors. From these interviews and his own diary entries, he penned Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in its Disaster Zone, which was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award.