Two Ambala friends make it to Limca Book of Records after traveling Leh to Kanyakumari in 87 hours

AMBALA: Two Ambala based friends, Ajay Rana (22) and Vishal Pundhir (20), have made it to the

Limca Book of Records

after traveling on two motorcycles covering the distance of 3,963 kilometers in just 87 hours and 3 minutes, and both have broken the earlier record of 125 hours.

They started their journey at 4 am on June 2, 2019, from

Leh

and reached

Kanyakumari

on June 5 evening and they faced many ups and downs during their expedition.

Both friends are students and have a hobby of motorcycle riding. They made the record of fastest North-South India two-wheeler expedition in the group category.

As per the information, last year, both the friend had gone for adventure to Manali and Leh and the covered the journey in just 12 hours on their motorcycles.

Ajay and Vishal said, “After we came to know from locals in Manali that we have covered journey to Leh in very short period of time of 12 hours, we then started exploring about the records and came to know about the two-wheeler group expedition category record of Kashmir to Kanyakumari Limca Book of Records in 125 hours. Last year we decided to break this record with a big margin and started our preparations and planning. It took the preparation of around 8 months and we had to save a lot of money for our expedition. Finally, we have set a new record of 87 hours and 3 minutes.”

Took only two intervals in entire journey

The riders told during their entire journey they took only two internals one at Bilaspur in

Himachal Pradesh

and the second at Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh and completed their journey to Kanyakumari in 87 hours. Vishal said, “We had planned to our first interval in Ambala but my motorcycle developed some technical glitch related to plug due to which we had to take an interval at Bilaspur as it was getting late. So, we planned to stay there.”

Studying and completing dreams

Ajay Rana has done Bachelors of Technology (Btech) while Vishal Pundhir has completed his Bachelors in Science Non-Medical. They said, "We want to continue our studies and fulfill our dreams of traveling across India. We have passed through 11 states and met a large number of people from across the country who were very nice to us."

Toughest road at

Taglang La

Pass

“We faced the toughest road of our journey near Taglang La Pass due to small waterfalls on the road. When we reached Taglang La from Leh, it was around 6 pm and the water on the road had become ice and there was no friction. Ajay had fallen on the road and it was very hard for him to get up on his feet as there was no friction. Then we broke the ice with the help of stones and walked through the tough terrain.”

Adopted complete safety measures

Ajay and Vishal told they planned and prepared for the expedition around 8 months in advance and save a lot of money for purchasing safety equipment and spent around Rs 1 lakh in total break the old record and set a new one. "We did not travel in odd hours and listened to the suggestions of the locals in every state and did not take risks."

The riders had to visit some government officials during their journey for getting stamp and signatures on their Limca Book of Records logbook and for tracking global positioning system (GPS) were installed on their motorcycles.

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