Nick Hancock hopes to live on rocky islet for 60 days in life pod, beating the 42 spent on it by three Greenpeace members
An adventurer bidding to set a new record by living solo for 60 days on Rockall has finished testing his survival pod, after coaxing a crucial winch into life. Nick Hancock, 38, a chartered surveyor from near Edinburgh, is leaving for the wind-battered islet which sits in the Atlantic some 230 miles west of Scotland, in two weeks time.
He hopes to live on Rockall for two months in a homemade, modified plastic water tank, now fitted with weather and water-proofed entry hatch and window, beating both the solo record of 40 days for occupying Rockall and the record for any human occupation of 42 days
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