page_title: Alastair Galpin
hierarchical_section_title: Alastair Galpin
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Alastair Galpin by Liz March
context_page_description: Alastair Galpin
  is the 2nd biggest Guinness World Records breaker of the 2000s decade, breaking 38 World Records, behind Ashrita Furman. He immigrated to New Zealand in 2002, and says that his career in Record Breaking was inspired when he met champion rally driver, Simon Evans, in Kenya in 1998.
context_section_description: Alastair Galpin (born 1974, East London, South Africa) 
  is the 2nd biggest Guinness World Records breaker of the 2000s decade, breaking 38 World Records, behind Ashrita Furman. He immigrated to New Zealand in 2002, and says that his career in Record Breaking was inspired when he met champion rally driver, Simon Evans, in Kenya in 1998.
caption: November 2009
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