cycling is one of the favourite hobbies of gurugrammers across the city you will find several avid cyclists who cover distances of a few hundred kilometres every day however 25 year old sunita chokhen who lives on the outskirts of the city upped the ante by cycling for over km from southern most point of the to the northern most motorable the 25 year old who lives in a small town in rewari an hour away from undertook this long journey as part of her drive that her plant over 200 saplings in several in india the journey also made the first indian woman to cycle solo from kanyakumari to khardung la talking about she started this journey sunita tells us i not a cyclist but a mountaineer i climbed everest in and have other mountains around world earlier year i was on an expedition to an unclimbed mountain in the when i noticed how much the region had changed i had gone for my initial recce of that area in 2012 and since then the region had seen so much deforestation that i felt bad that s what compelled me to do for the environment and the idea of the kanyakumari to leh plantation drive shaped up why chose to cycle instead of using any other mode of transportation sunita if i had or taken a bike it would defeat purpose of an environment friendly campaign since those vehicles cause pollution was the option sunita started on her 4656 km journey from the most point on mainland kanyakumari on july 15 and ended it at khardung la highest motorable in the world six weeks later it me 46 days to finish the journey during which covered 100 km every day on my but more i planted saplings along the way i planted some city i stopped in from kanyakumari to manali post manali the weather nt conducive so i stopped that says sunita spoke to her contacts friends in several cities and also made new friends in city she visited in to make there was someone to look after the saplings she she explains in every city i planted the saplings keeping in mind that there was to after them planted them in temples schools or colleges even in areas i made sure to get the residents to promise me to water the main focus of my journey was not any record but the goal of plantation however the record landed in acci dentally she tells us friends told me that m the first girl to cycle from kanyakumari kashmir i did nt believe it