AN adventurer from Over Peover is hoping to earn a place in the record books – for the world’s highest pizza delivery.

Charles Rogers has joined a team of six who are flying to India today, Wednesday, to tackle seven of the highest mountain passes in Kashmir and Ladakh.

The Stocks Lane resident will be riding a 40-year-old Royal Enfield 500cc Bullet on a two-week expedition which culminates in a journey to the peak of Marsimek-la.

Charles aims to deliver a pizza to the Indian soldiers at the 18,634ft summit – more than four times the height of Ben Nevis.

The mountain’s pass is not actually classed as navigable as it is just a track made by the army to defend its borders.

Charles and the team must also face the daunting prospect that on the ancient highways of India there is a casualty every four and a half minutes.

The 42-year-old said: “In India, if you fall off the cliff and crash it’s ‘meant to be’. They have a very weird idea of road safety.

“It’s a case of trying to keep out of mischief and staying out of everyone’s way.”

Charles’ pizza delivery route is also expected to be a huge struggle.

He said: “It’s so high up that the bikes will be starved of oxygen and we will end up having to push them.”

The bike will be laden with clothes, supplies and camping equipment.

He added: “You can literally take 10 paces before having to stop and rest. It will be sheer determination that will get us there.

“The higher up we go the colder it gets, and at some points we will be above the clouds.”

The trip is the third instalment of ‘The Wrong Way Round’ – a spoof of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s Long Way Round.

The first was an attempt to ride all the way to Magadan in Eastern Russia which fell short when the team took a wrong turn and ended up in Transnystria, between Moldova and Ukraine.

Then last year they tackled the Sahara desert.

Inspiration for the pizza delivery challenge came from the bikes they used in their previous adventures, which were very similar to pizza delivery mopeds.

Charles said: “We even looked at the world’s longest pizza delivery but that record was held by someone who jumped on a plane and flew to New Zealand – that’s cheating.”