In an another feather to his cap, the ace mountaineer Colonel Ranveer Singh Jamwal will led 5300 kilometers cycling expedition, which will passing through six South East Asian Nations before culminating at Esplanade Park (INA War Memorial) in Singapore on March 8, 2023.
Officials told news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), the defence minister approved the four member’s team of Dirang-based National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) cyclists, who will cover the distance of 5300 kilometers.
“The team will kick off its 6-nation cycling expedition from Hanoi, Vietnam from January 18, covering a distance of around 5300 kilometers in over 50 days through Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia before culminating at Esplanade Park (INA War Memorial) in Singapore on March 8, 2023,” a defence spokesperson said.
He informed that the expedition team has already landed in Hanoi to get acclimatized after setting off from New Delhi on January 16, 2023.
Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh has approved the expedition in the meeting of the Executive Council of the Institute held under his Chairmanship last year.
He informed that four-member team is led by Col Ranveer Singh Jamwal and was the first of its kind Cycling expedition traversing 6 South East Asian Nations.
At Singapore they will pay tribute to all the warriors who laid down their lives for the Country’s Independence from the British colonial Regime, at the INA Memorial.
It is notable that the NIMAS team had created a Record in India Book of Records recently by becoming first of its kind expedition, covering all the seven North Eastern states by cycle.
It also climbed the highest point of all 7 states of the North East region. The expedition cycled 1098 kilometers through Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura and interacted with Youth Associations of these States.
Hailing from Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district, Colonel Ranveer Singh Jamwal is the first Indian to climb the Seven Summits and Mount Everest three times. He is a veteran of more than 30 mountaineering expeditions across seven continents that include the Mount Everest expedition four times.
His family is from Badhori of Samba District in Jammu and Kashmir.
Jamwal was awarded the highest National award for adventure, the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award. He was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal by the President of India on 15 January 2015. On the same date the next year (15 January 2016) he was awarded a bar to his Vishisht Seva Medal VSM. He was awarded the Indian Mountaineering Foundation Gold Medal on 18 November 2017 for his achievements in mountaineering. He was awarded the Sher-E-Kashmir Sports Award by the Jammu and Kashmir government on 26 January 2016.s achievements in mountaineering. He was awarded the Sher-E-Kashmir Sports Award by the Jammu and Kashmir government on 26 January 2016—(KNO)
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