SKYDIVING : Sqn Ldr Sanjay Thapar jumped with the Indian tricolour from 10,000 ft over the North Pole at 3:52 a.m. (local time) on april 21, 1996.
TEAM MOTORBIKE EXPEDITIONS: As Indo-Pak to Indo-China Border Expedition was undertaken by five students from chandigarh, namely, Rajwant Singh, Karan Dutta, Amit Raj, Ashish Gupta and Harsimranjit Singh. They traversed a distance of 1,219 km from Indo-Pak border to the Indo-China border in 53 hrs 45 min. This expedition was flagged off from the Hussainiwala border, Ferozpur, Punjab, on June 25, 2005 at 2:50 p.m. and touched Chisul, Leh on June 27.
The Harmony Motorcycle Rally, comprising eight bikers from South India set out on an expedition from Kanyakumari on June 6, 2005 at 6:00 a.m. to reach the world's highest motorable pass, Khardung La (18,380 ft) on July 20, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. covering an approximate disatnce of 9,000 km. The team led by D. Muniappan covered an average distance of 250 km per day and touched 130 districts. They completed the journey at India Gate, New Delhi on August 8,2005. The other team members were L.Saravanan, E.Vijay Anand, J.Jegannathan, V.Rajesh Kumar, J.Vinoth, S.Sasi kumar and P.Thanga Pandian.
SOLO MOTORBIKE EXPEDITION: The first all India tour by a solo rider was completed by Rajesh Gaur of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on Oct. 6,2004 on his Yamaha R2. He had started from Varanasi on August 31,2004. Two members who had begun with him, dropped out soon after the expedition started. Rajesh completed the solo journey in 36 days and 13 hrs, having covered 18,000 km, riding through 25 states and five Union Territories.
PARASAILING: Col (Dr) C>K>Singh sailed at Stakna, approximately 40 km from Leh from a height of 11,500 feet on June 16, 2003. The parasailing was conducted under the aegis of National Adventure Foundation, Agra.
MOUNTAINEERING: Dicky Dolma became the youngest Indian woman to scale Everest in 1993 when she was 19.
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