An hour before the inauguration of daylong ‘Green Ladakh Festival’, a glittering ceremony being attended by dignitaries including His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, Bavarian Minister of Environment and Consumer Protection, Dr Scharf of Germany, Chief Executive Councillor, LAHDC, Leh Dr Sonam Dawa and Executive Councillors of the Hill Council Leh, Ladakh was elated by getting set to enter ‘Ladakh Ice Stupa’ to the Guinness Book of World Records as highest manmade Ice Sculpture here at Phyang Thang on Saturday.
“The previous record held for the tallest manmade Ice Sculpture is in China which is 53 feet high”, Sonam Wangchuk, the engineer who bagged prestigious Rolex Award for Enterprises in 2016 for building Ice Stupas to conserve water, informed the media after the newly built Ice Stupa of Ladakh recorded a length of 78. 4 feet, far taller than the one in China.
Source: State Times