Arun Choudhary, who is an employee of PATH India Company, Mhow, successfully completed the 72 km Ladakh marathon Khardungla challenge 72 km run before the given time of 14 hours.
Ladakh marathon is supported by the Ladakh autonomous hill development council LAHDC which is an autonomous government body. This marathon is operated by RUMO expenditure which is India’s foremost travel adventure company and also by Indian army.
The Khardungla challenge ultra marathon is of 72 kms run and starts from Khardungla villages at 3 am in minus 2 degree and reaches at Khardungla top in minus 18 degree and ends at Leh market at 5 pm. The maximum height of the marathon is 17618 feet.
During the marathon it was a snowfall and participants had to run in that condition only. Throughout the run army officers have provided the participants with warm water and heaters to heat their body.
A total 180 participants from all over the country mostly from Germany, England, Japan, Israel and Switzerland have participated in this marathon out of which only 115 could complete it in the prescribed time period.
Only three candidates have participated from Madhya Pradesh and Arun Choudhary and Pankaj Pardeshi have represented Indore region.
Arun choudhary ran the complete 72 kms marathon and the other two left the marathon in between.
The marathon was organized in four stages. And the total time to complete the marathon was 14 hours.
Arun Choudhary completed the marathon in 13 hours 53 minutes. Arun Choudhary and Pankaj Pardeshi of PATH also participated in another marathon of 21 kms in which Pankaj Pardeshi secured 10th rank.
The director of the PATH India Limited Company Mhow Santosh Agrawal, Puneet Agrawal and Nitin Agrawal felicitated Arun Choudhary and Pankaj Pardeshi.
Their all the expenditure of the practice training and participation in different marathon is beard by PATH India Company Mhow. The winner of the event was Shabir Hussain from India.