A man who was stuck for 41 hours in a New York elevator on October 15, 1999, told his story for the first time in an exclusive interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" Monday.
Nicholas White, a 34-year-old New York production manager, told his story after the New Yorker released a time-lapsed video of the hours White spent in the elevator on their Web site on April 21. Since then, the video has been viewed over 280,000 times on YouTube.
White left his office Friday at 11 p.m. for a cigarette break. While he was returning to his office on the 39th floor of the McGraw-Hill Building, the elevator stopped. White was stuck in a deserted building with no food, water or a cell phone, he said on "Good Morning America."
An elevator surveillance camera recorded White's entire 41-hour experience, according to United Press International. He paced around the elevator to fight claustrophobia and cracked open the doors so he could urinate down the elevator shaft.
The ordeal has not deterred White from using elevators.
"Living in Manhattan, I'd be seriously limiting my life if I didn't take elevators," he told UPI.
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