Millwall fan Ben Spencer made it his mission to visit every Tube station before he can no longer walk, raising awareness for Ataxia UK
Armed with his camera and his walking sticks, Ben Spencer embarked on the challenge in SeptemberA Londoner has spent months visiting all of London's Tube stations in a bid to make the most of his mobility and to raise awareness about his medical condition.
Due to his love of the London Underground, he set himself the challenge of visiting all 272 Tube stations. He said: "The early symptoms started many years ago when I started to have difficulties walking," he told the BBC. "But I struggled to get a diagnosis; it was mistaken from everything to a tremor to arthritis.
His condition gets worse if he is more sedentary, and he says if it were not for getting out and about "I almost definitely wouldn't be walking at all".Despite this, the condition has progressed faster than he had hoped, and what he thought would take him three months has taken five, with his mobility unpredictable from one day to the next. Despite these difficulties, he says he has come to love the network more than ever.
Now that Mr Spencer struggles with noise and crowds, he sometimes seeks refuge at the quiet Roding Valley station, on the Central Line in Essex, where if you miss a train you could be waiting 15 minutes for the next one.
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