From North Pole to Easter Island: Entrepreneur’s wanderlust fuels marathon firsts for India
NEW DELHI: (Jul 1) Ram Gopal Kothari insists he is not a runner but a traveller. And his insatiable hunger to explore has taken the Kolkata entrepreneur from the North Pole to one of the world’s most remote inhabited islands, Rapa Nui in Chile, where he became the first Indian to complete the Volcano Marathon.
Less than a year after becoming the first Indian to complete a marathon at the Geographic North Pole, the 45-year-old Kothari has scripted another first, this time on Rapa Nui, also called the Easter Island, famed for its mysterious Moai statues and dramatic volcanic landscape.
The journey involved travelling more than 24,000 kilometres from India. It was also the 80th country that Kothari set foot on in his eventful life.
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