Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal Explained

Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal
Birth Date:	10 January 1949
Birth Place:	Sachkhil, Pauri Garhwal district, Uttarakhand, India
Occupation:	Police official Mountaineer
Known For:	Everest and Kanchen Junga summiting
Awards:	Padma Shri

Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal (born 10 January 1949) is an Indian police official and mountaineer,^[1] known for climbing the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest in 1992.^[2] He was born on 10 January 1949 in the small village of Sachkhil in the Pauri Garhwal district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand and has served the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.^[3] He is the only Indian mountaineer to have climbed Kanchenjunga through two routes, from Sikkim and Nepal.^[4]

Awards

• Received Padma Shri award by The Government of India in 2003.^{[5] [6]}

See also

• List of 20th century summiters of Mount Everest
• Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise
• List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
• List of Mount Everest records of India

Notes and References

1. Book: Everest: Summit of Achievement . Simon and Schuster . Royal Geographical Society . 2003 . 252 . 9780743243865.
2. Web site: MT. EVEREST EXPEDITION CONDUCTED BY ITBP . Indo-Tibet Border Police . 2015 . 13 November 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015408/http://itbpolice.nic.in/eKiosk/writeReadData/sports/mountaineering.pdf . 17 November 2015 . dmy-all .
3. Web site: Mountaineers of Mount Everest of India . Indian Autographs . 2015 . 13 November 2015.
4. Web site: Core Team . Utopia . 2015 . 13 November 2015.
5. Web site: Padma Awards . Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India . 2015 . 21 July 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf . 15 October 2015 .
6. News: Kalam presents Padma awards . Rediff.com.