The Other Side of Ladakh, Dr Arnob Gupta: His Karizma got snowed out at Tangalanga La

The Other Side of Ladakh, Dr Arnob Gupta: His Karizma got snowed out at Tangalanga La
Originally uploaded by Captain Nandu Chitnis, Master Mariner

And he had to abort a dream record setting Ride from Leh to Kanyakumari, on 28 June 2009.

Dr Gupta is a Dental Surgeon based at Mumbai. He has been figured in the Limca Book of Records for his Motorcycle riding speed records here in India as also abroad in the USA.

This failed record ride will be a major story for me to write soon. Doc Arn has allowed me to use his pictures and write his story.

We Bikenomads are working on that.

He just about survived this at minus 15 deg centigrade. Lucky, he is safe and sound.

For all his amazing skills and records, he is humility personified in person. He taught me that, when riding a mo bike.

We went through this pass in snow and ice conditions just a few days later, at a height of 17,000 odd feet above sea level.