Father-son duo of Dehradun set a Limca Record in trekking through the Thar Desert

A father-son duo of Dehradun have set a Limca Record in trekking through the Thar Desert - they have completed their planned trek of The Great Indian Desert (Thar Desert) covering on foot a distance of 305.17 kms in Bikaner-Jaisalmer area along the Indo-Pak Border in 9 days.
Both of them are products of Doon School - the father Manmohan Bhardwaj is an ex-student of the school batch of 1980 and his son Madhav Bhardwaaj is now a student of class 12.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 19 October 2016.

The earlier record of maximum length trek in desert was in the name of Indian Army with 261.59 km in 10 days in the month of February 2010.
After completing their record, the father-son duo had applied to the Limca Book of Records to consider their longer trek as the new record, in view of added achievements like less time, early summer hot weather as against February of the Army and being a father-son duo. The Limca Book of Records have accepted their record.


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