{"id":53588,"date":"2018-12-05T01:35:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=53588"},"modified":"2018-12-05T01:35:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:05:06","slug":"nimass-mtb-course-and-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/05\/nimass-mtb-course-and-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"NIMAS&#8217;s MTB course and expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DIRANG, Dec 4:<\/strong> A 15-member trainee cyclists from the National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (NIMAS) have set off on a 15 days Mountain Terrain Biking (MTB) course and expedition to Bumla, Tawang on one December.<br \/>\nThis is the NIMAS&#8217; maiden MTB course and first of its kind in the country.<br \/>\nThe expedition cum training course was formally flagged off by Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Dr. Mohesh Chai and General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 4 Corps, Lt General GS Sangha at Rupa in West Kameng district on 3 December.<br \/>\nLed by Everester Col Sarfraz Singh, the riders will pedal through Bomdila, Dirang, Sela, Tawang into Bumla, which is located 15,000 ft above the sea level, covering a distance of around 250 km.<br \/>\nAhondo Menjo, one of the finest MTB riders, and Rubi Lombo are among the four riders from Arunachal Pradesh.<br \/>\nThe course will cover acclimatization procedures, high-altitude medicine, up hill as well as down hill biking maneuvering skills, bike repair and maintenance, river crossing with the bike and methodology of preparation for professional MTB competitions etc.<br \/>\nThis will be the India&#8217;s first certified course, and those who qualify will become MTB instructors.<br \/>\nDirector of Youth Affairs DK Dinglow and other senior officers of the district were present during the flagging off ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIRANG, Dec 4: A 15-member trainee cyclists from the National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (NIMAS) have set off on a 15 days Mountain Terrain Biking (MTB) course and expedition to Bumla, Tawang on one December. This is the NIMAS&#8217; maiden MTB course and first of its kind in the country. The expedition cum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}