A Tube-mad schoolboy plans to visit all 270 Underground stations to raise money for cancer research charity Bloodwise in memory of his brother.
Alasdair Clift, 13, will be joined by his mother Caroline and father Richard, both 50, as he rides the rails for 19 hours on Monday.
He decided on the challenge after his brother Adam, who had Burkitt’s lymphoma, died in March aged 17. Alasdair said: “I chose Bloodwise because they do good work researching cancer. If they did not exist my brother would’ve died within months but he was able to hold on for over two years.”
The Tube Challenge rules laid down by the Guinness Book of Records mean Alasdair will not have to get off at each station. He plans to catch the Metropolitan Line at Chesham at 5.15am and finish at Heathrow Terminal Five at 12.09am on Tuesday.
His parents, who are science teachers and live in Irby on the Wirral, said it was something positive after Alasdair and his brother Joseph’s “tough year”.
To sponsor Alasdair, visit justgiving.com/fundraising/Alasdair-Clift or text RVVB81 £5 to 70070.
