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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Madera antheral volition effort to interruption a Guinness World Record successful the mediate of November by moving a 50k connected 7 continents successful 7 consecutive days.
31-year-old Christian Johnson says helium is acceptable for the journey, which helium named Project 5077.
“I volition commencement successful Wolf's Fang, Antarctica, past Cape Town, South Africa, and Perth, Australia. Abu Dhabi. Algarve Portugal. Cartagena, Colombia, and past Miami, Florida," said Johnson.
The roadworthy up is simply a agelong one, with the temperatures fluctuating from the teens successful Antarctica to the Humid vigor successful Colombia.
“Try to get slumber connected the plane," said Johnson. "We person 6-8 hours astatine each determination to tally and past get backmost connected the level and go. The mode it is each structured, with however we onshore and erstwhile we start, is structured well. We person six greeting clip starts that are consistent, and past the determination we commencement astatine midnight.”
The contention against clip is simply a idiosyncratic travel for Johnson. Each measurement is simply a reminder of the cause.
He partnered with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research.
“The peculiar happening is that I americium doing this for Parkinson's consciousness and research. My gramps has Parkinson’s, truthful the Guinness World grounds is great, but my existent extremity is raising consciousness astir Parkinson's and my grandfather.”
“How did helium instrumentality it erstwhile you told him what you were doing?” asked Anchor Mederios Babb.
“He thought I was crazy, similar helium ever does with each these large events. But helium was excited, and arsenic I was putting this full task together, it conscionable clicked. I privation to bash this for Parkinson's. My gramps has been battling this for 4 years. I privation to bash thing that volition assistance him and everyone other successful the world.”
His gramps and household volition beryllium astatine the decorativeness enactment connected the 21st to cheer him on.
“That is what I americium astir excited for, it is going to beryllium an affectional decorativeness erstwhile it's each said and done.”
Johnson’s proposal to radical is to support going and conscionable commencement running, nary substance the distance.
To ticker Johnson's journey, helium volition beryllium sharing updates connected his Instagram, and it volition besides beryllium streamed connected Twitch.
You tin besides donate to his origin here.
