Team members who created a record in non-stop rafting for 160 km on the Zanskar in the minimum time in Ladakh. Tribune photo

Ravinder Saini

Tribune News Service

Jhajjar, October 1

A joint team of Six Sigma Healthcare High Altitude Medical Services and the Indian Army led by Dr Pradeep Bhardwaj, a resident of Kharar village here, has created a record by non-stop rafting for 160 km in the least time on the Zanskar river in Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir) located at a height of 14,000 ft.“The team started rafting from Padum (Leh) at 7 am on September 22 and reached the finishing point in Sangam Nimu (Leh) at 5.10 pm. The team engaged a total of 75 rapids and took merely 10 hours and 10 minutes to cover the entire stretch of 160 km on the Zanskar,” says Bhardwaj, CEO-cum-Medical Director, Six Sigma Healthcare.He claims it is for the first time that a team has covered the Zanskar by rafting in a day. Otherwise, people used to take seven days for the purpose. The record was created during the Zanskar White Water Rafting Expedition and the team comprised 30 members, Bhardwaj adds.