Ashrita Furman; New York, USA; April 22-23, 1998.
The greatest distance walked by a person continuously balancing a milk bottle on the head is 130.3 km (80.96 miles) by Ashrita Furman of New York, USA, around Victory Field track, Forest Park, Queens, on April 22–23, 1998. It took him 23 hours 35 minutes to complete the walk.
Ashrita Furman was born on September 16, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. As a teen, Ashrita says he was a major geek, who was bad at sport and quit on the first day of his school athletics team trials. He claimed "cool" status when he came across the spiritual teachings of Sri Chinmoy, and by 1974 he was such a fan that he named himself Ashrita (he was originally called Keith) and made it into the Guinness Book Of Records in 1979, by doing 27,000 jumping jacks. As Ashrita is a strict vegan he used soya rather than dairy milk for the record.
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Ashrita may make this party trick look easy (if you really have to give it a go practice with a plastic bottle!), but it all comes down to his daily meditation regime. Ashrita is on a spiritual mission and uses his inner spirit to perform the record-breaking feats. Under the instruction of his guru, Sri Chinmoy, he says he's been able to attain a new level of self-transcendence – meaning he can overcome the physical pain and mental anguish of his testing record attempts. "I don't even have a flat head," says the headstrong record breaker. "You can see from the photo – I have to tilt my head to one side to keep the bottle balanced!"
Source: Guinness World Records 2007
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