Head-balancing British strongman on file mission for 75th birthday

Possessing earlier tackled bricks, milk crates and even cars and trucks, the 74-12 months-aged is on a mission: to protected 100 earth documents for his head balancing feats by his following birthday in March.

“I’ve got 1 eye, I’m a diabetic, I’ve bought bronchial asthma, I‘ve got angina and after all is reported and completed I have received 98 planet information,” Evans explained to Reuters.

Head balancer John Evans holds up a Guinness Globe File certification, in Ilkeston, Britain. (REUTERS/Carl Recine)

“This 1 (the chimney) … will be with any luck , my 99th earth record and then coming up to my 75th birthday, I’m having a major 5 foot by five foot (1.52m x 1.52m) crown created and I’m heading to stability that on my head and it will be my 100th globe history.”

Evans, who life in the central English county of Derbyshire, found out his talent as a teen operating on making sites.

“I was about 17, 18. I utilised to carry bricks on my head on a board … using 24 bricks on my head up ladders,” he explained.

“When I was about 42, I acquired requested to do some type of charity event…I balanced a several bricks on my head…it made substantial push.”

Evans has given that travelled the entire world balancing drinking water kegs, pints of beer, cement mixers, a fridge, a quad bike and famously a stripped-out Mini on his head.

John Evans holds up a photograph of himself balancing a phone box on his head. (REUTERS/Carl Recine)

“The Mini has been all over the globe. I have carried out the Mini in Hollywood, I have completed it in China, I’ve performed it in Paris,” he reported, keeping a Guinness Environment Document certification for balancing the vehicle through a tv display in France.

“It was 357 kilos (162 kg) and I managed to harmony it … for 20 seconds on my head … if that experienced long gone improper, it would have killed me.”

Evans, whose achievements have been recognised by Guinness Earth Documents and Record Holders Republic, has lifted far more than 250,000 kilos ($331,225) for charity through his functions.

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