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  Sunday, May 30, 2010
  Oldest person to abseil - world record set by Doris Long
  PORTSMOUTH, UK -- Doris Long, 96, has abseiled 200ft down a 21-storey building with Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans in aid of The Rowans Hospice charity - setting the new world record for the Oldest person to abseil.

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   It was her 16th abseil and she pledged to carry on the sport until she is 100.

   Evans said: "She looked after me all the way down, because half way down I got the 'colly-wobbles'."

 
  The previous Guinness world record for the Oldest person to abseil was also set by Doris Long in 2009 when she was 95.

   
Another 150 people also took part to raise money for the hospice.

   Ms Long said: "It was fine. Very exhilarating because it was so very, very windy.

   Doris challenged Radio Two breakfast DJ Chris Evans and his breakfast show team to abseil with her for The Rowans Hospice, live on air when she was invited onto his show earlier this year.

   Chris, who broadcasts to almost 10 million people each week, said: 'It was just one of those moments when you've got to say yes.'

   "It kept coming in gusts and blowing us to one side - once, we bumped in together, Chris and I.

   "The gusts blew me several times across people's windows. Good job nobody was in there having a bath."

    The World's Oldest person to abseil was watched by Portsmouth's deputy Lord Mayor Cheryl Buggy, who was an independent witness. She said: 'Doris just has this amazing sense of calm about her. She just came down and is smiling benignly and calmly. We can learn so much from people like her.

    The great-grandmother has completed 16 abseils, starting at the tender age of 85.

    And she has no plans to stop any time soon.
    'Oh I will do more. I'll stop when I'm 100!'

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   Sunday, May 30, 2010

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