Madhav Bhardwaj, student of Class 12th student of Doon School and Manmohan Bhardwaj, his father and also an ex-student of the school batch of 1980, have successfully completed their planned trek of The Great Indian Desert covering on foot a distance of 305.17 kms in Bikaner-Jaisalmer area along the Indo-Pak border in nine days. They have entered the limca Book Of Records.
The previous record of the maximum length trek in the desert was in the name of the Indian Army with 261.59 km done in 10 days in the month of February in the year 2010.
They had applied to the limca Book of Records for considering their longer trek as the new record, especially in view of such added achievements as less time ,early summer (hot weather) as against February of the Army.This has finally been accepted.