'Running Naked Boy', now 6, crosses Lop Nur desert

Six-year-old He Yide, who was recognized by Guinness World Records in 2013 as the youngest person in the world to pilot a plane, is in the news again after traversing the dangerous Lop Nur desert with 13 other people.

The boy, nicknamed Duoduo, has been known to Chinese people as the "Running Naked Boy" since February 2012, when an online video clip uploaded by his father showed the boy crying while running almost naked in New York in subzero temperature.

The boy's father, He Liesheng, a successful businessman in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, said a lot of preparation was made before the desert trek, which was done on foot and by vehicle.