RAWALPINDI: A team from the Pakistan Army won the gold medal in the premier patrolling exercise of the British Army - Exercise Cambrian Patrol - beating around 131 teams from armies across the globe, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement on Friday. 

The grueling patrolling exercise is organised and run by the British Army, is physically and mentally demanding as the participants have to cover a distance of 80-kilometres in 48 hours while trekking through the rugged Cambrian mountains in Wales. 

Cambrian Patrol is also the highlight of the British Army training calendar. 

The exercise is an annual event organised and run by 160th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters Wales, based in Brecon.

According to the British Army, the exercise is unique, world-class and the largest of its kind with some foreign entrants having to claim the right to take part in the UK by winning through their own domestic competition.