The World Record of ‘youngest person to reach the South Pole’ has been achieved by Lewis Clarke (16 years) from Bristol, UK.
Lewis trekked the 702-mile route from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole. He spent almost 50 days on ice, skiing for an average of eight hours a day and faced temperatures as low as -50C (-58F) and winds of 120mph (193 kmh).
The World Record ‘most letters written on a post card’ been achieved by Mr. Jaffar Saddiq from Haasan, Karnataka, India.
As demonstrated on December 19, 2013; Miniature artist Mr. Saddiq has written 120000 (One Hundred Twenty Thousand) letters on a post card sized 14 cm. x 9 cm. Letters are written by pencil without using a magnifying glass.
The World Record of ‘tallest observation wheel’ has been achieved by Staten Island, New York, USA.
This 630 foot (190 meter) tallest observation wheel is located on the north-eastern side of Staten Island, St. George. Roughly 60-story size observation Wheel can accommodate up to 1440 people per ride.
The World Record of ‘writing smallest Sundar kand: Chapter of epic Ramayan’ has been achieved by Mr. Satyanarayan Gocher Anta, Baran, Rajasthan, India.
Mr. Gocher has written the world’s smallest Sunder kand that measured 2 cm length, 1.5 cm width and 0.70 cm thickness. Book has 160 pages.
The World Record of creating ‘largest handprint painting’ has been achieved by Jeddah chamber of commerce and Industries Saudi Arabia.
On September 23, 2013; on the occasion of Saudi National Day 10000 (Ten Thousand) square meter map of Saudi Arabia was made with 1.2 million green handprints.
Previous World Record
The World Record of creating ‘largest handprint painting’ was achieved by Kuwait. On March 05, 2013; handprint painting with total area of 6,154 square meters was created.
The World Record of innovating ‘line script art’ has been achieved by Dr. Venkatachary Chintapatla from Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
In this script called Rahasya Lipi; texts are written in a special pattern of vertical lines and when viewed from 45 to 75 degree angle, the alphabets become readable. Dr. Chintapatla is able to write this script in eight languages viz. English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi, Urdu and Arabic.
