New Delhi: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has made a Guinness World Record by constructing and blacktopping the world’s highest motorable road at Umlingla Pass in Ladakh, which stands at 19,024 feet.

On Tuesday November 16, Lt. Gen Rajeev Chaudhry, Director General of the Border Roads Organization (BRO), received Guinness World Records certificate. According to a press statement issued by the Ministry of Defence in New Delhi, the official adjudicator of the Guinness World Records based in the United Kingdom, Rishi Nath, acknowledged the remarkable achievement of BRO for creating the world’s highest altitude road in a virtual ceremony.

The BRO’s achievement was validated by five different surveyors over the course of four months. The 52-kilometre Chisumle to Demchok tarmac road crosses through the 19,024-feet-high Umlingla Pass, breaking the previous Bolivian record of 18,953-foot-high volcano Uturuncu. The Umlingla Pass Road was built at a greater altitude than Mount Everest’s North and South Base Camps, which are 16,900 feet and 17,598 feet, respectively.