‘I feared for my life’: record-setting US traveler says he was held as possible spy

Indy Nelson set a record for most airlines flown and said he was detained by Iran, Russia, Libya and Papua New Guinea

An American man who set a world record while traveling to every country on the globe says he has been temporarily detained as a possible spy by four different nations.

I feared for my life several times," Indy Nelson told Guinness World Records in an interview the organization published on its website recently. There were definitely several times that I did not think that I was going to get out of that country. [But] by the fourth time, it was like, No big deal anymore.'"