These Soldiers Just Smashed the World Record for Farthest Vehicle Pull
A team of soldiers from the United Kingdom just set a brand new world record for the farthest vehicle pull by a team in a 12-hour time period. 12 troops from the 3 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps took on the challenge to raise money for mental health charity MIND and soldiers' charity ABF, and ended up not just breaking the existing record of 8 km, but absolutely destroying it.
Dragging the van, which weighed nearly 4,000 pounds (over 1,810 kilograms) around scenic Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, the guys started their 12-hour journey at 10 p.m. They swapped places every 20 minutes in the interest of safety, then accelerated to switching every 10 minutes as they neared the end of the 12-hour window.
Cheered on by a crowd of their fellow soldiers, they finished at 10 a.m. the next day, having pulled the van an astonishing 76.026 km.
"They could have stopped at 8.05 km and have got the record," said Glenn Pollard, an adjudicator with Guinness World Records. "They wanted to absolutely smash it, and I think they've actually done that."
"It's been emotional," said Captain Jonathan Kinahan of 3 Regiment RLC. "It's been a lot more difficult than I think we originally thought it would be. It was hard, it was dark, it was cold, it was miserable. When the sun came up, things started to change a little bit for the better, we could actually see our surroundings, which was nice. So yeah, it's been a long night... As for the van, I never want to see it ever again."
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