NIMAS cycling expedition connects people across 6 ASEAN countries

A four-member team of cyclists completed 53,000 kilometres across six ASEAN countries in over a month as part of an expedition undertaken to commemorate 75 years of India's Independence and celebrate the country's G20 Presidency.

India formally assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1.

The expedition from the Defence Ministry's National Institute of Mountaineering and Adventure Sports (NIMAS) led by Col Ranveer Singh Jamwal completed its journey across six ASEAN countries has completed 53,000 km in 37 days across six ASEAN countries building strong people-to-people connections and tracking the Indian National Army route of the 1940s.

The six ASEAN countries included Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and Singapore.

We started from Vietnam and culminated our expedition at the Indian National Army Monument marker at Singapore's Esplanade Park which is one of the eleven World War II markers erected in 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II,"Col ..