https://vo.rs/tags/lapland/Latest from the Lapland desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:52:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/finlands-mosquito-swatting-championship-the-least-glamorous-sport/<p>Every summer in the Finnish Lapland village of Pelkosenniemi, a small crowd gathers to watch grown adults stand perfectly still in a swarm of mosquitoes and hit themselves as hard as they can. There is no ball, no opponent to grapple, no track to run. There is a five-minute clock, a metre-square patch of marked grass, and the single most abundant natural resource north of the Arctic Circle: blood-hungry insects. The winner is whoever kills the most of them.</p>Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:52:00 +0000