‘Ladakh Ice Stupa’ set to enter Guinness Book of World Records

 'Ladakh Ice Stupa’ is set to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as highest manmade Ice Sculpture.

“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.

“We had one chief surveyor from the civil engineering wing of government and two witnesses, one from the army and another from the police department. They measured with a total station measuring device and it came as 78.4 feet,” said Wangchuk adding that now they will be submitting it to Guinness Book for analyses of the records and then it will be declared in a week or so if it makes it.

"Our ice stupa’s height is making a new history in the Guinness Book of World Record," the award winning innovator said.

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Preparing of ice stupa is aimed to find an alternative to overcome water scarcity for irrigation and cultivation of agricultural land during early spring season when water from the natural glaciers is insufficient. 

The water to be obtained from this (ice stupa) source for irrigation purpose will last till mid July this year will be stored in a tank, from there it will be distributed to large swathes of land bereft of water. 

Besides ending water scarcity during cultivation season, the ice stupa can also prove to be an attraction for tourists visiting the region during winter months, Wangchuk said. It is learnt that last month around 3000 visitors came to witness this Ice Stupa.

Meanwhile, Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche later inaugurated a daylong ‘Green Ladakh Festival’ as a part of the ‘Go Green Go Organic’ project.

To know more about this innovative project, please visit – http://icestupa.org/

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Image courtesy – Ice Stupa Website and State Times