A man from Halifax has failed in his attempt to earn a place in The Guinness Book of Records. After spending almost a month living in a tree in his friend's garden, he came down to earth only to find that the world record was not twenty-six days, as he had been told, but twenty-six years. The record was set by a man in Indonesia, who climbed a palm tree in 1970, and still hasn't come down. Interviewed by the Yorkshire Post, Mr Chris Lee said, 'I feel a right prat.' The attempt was made in a 250-year-old sycamore at an altitude of forty feet. Mr Lee hoisted food in a bucket, slept in a sleeping bag wedged between branches, and took with him a supply of books to read, including the Yellow Pages.
Simon Armitage, « News Just In », All Points North
