But a few days ago, Guinness crowned a new champion. So Wells thinks as long as he finishes, he'll be the record holder by default. That's before the system got three new stations. NESSEN: Second, when Wells started planning this trip in February, he believed the last time the record was broken was seven years ago. He also needs video evidence of every transfer, and dangling from his neck is a stopwatch with his overall time. He documents what time doors open and close. He needs to take a photo of each station. When can I make these transfers? It's going to take me x number of minutes to make it from this stop to this stop by running. WELLS: This one was a lot of guess and check. NESSEN: Twenty-nine-year-old Daniel Wells has been studying the train schedule and the map, which resembles a multicolored pile of pasta dumped on the ground. I think we're good to board the train here.
This line has 45 stops and runs to the top of Manhattan.ĭANIEL WELLS: All right. That's because we're near the Atlantic Ocean, just next to JFK Airport. STEPHEN NESSEN, BYLINE: It's just past 1 o'clock in the morning, and I'm standing on the elevated A train platform in Far Rockaway, Queens. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Watch your step, please.
From member station WNYC in New York, Stephen Nessen tagged along with somebody trying to break the Guinness World Record for the subway challenge. For decades, people with travel inclination have made a sport of visiting every station as quickly as possible. "The lack of awareness for testing for cardiac health issues led me to come up with this harebrained idea to spend my mid-life crisis advocating for cardiac health,” he said.The New York City subway system has 472 stations laid out across 665 miles of track, and it runs 24 hours a day. "Unfortunately, in many cases, you're not symptomatic until you've got an advanced issue and for a lot of people that can lead to a catastrophic event like a heart attack." Loading.Īfter his experience with regional healthcare, Mr Charlesworth is advocating for regional Australians to take their heart health into their own hands. "I've always looked after myself, but in my case I had blockages and it's something you can't see, you don't know," he said.
It was a health episode that took him by surprise. Sudden chest pains led to Mr Charlesworth having emergency triple bypass surgery at 47 years old. Mr Charlesworth named his paddleboard "Karina" after the paramedic who kept him alive during an ambulance transfer from Albury to Melbourne in 2020. ( ABC Riverland: Anita Ward) Health scare prompts 'mid-life crisis' Peter Charlesworth is attempting the Guinness World Record for the longest journey by stand-up paddle board.
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