Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal

Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal is an Indian Police official and mountaineer, known for summitting the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, which he accomplished in 1992. He was born on 10 January 1949 at the small village of Sachkhil in the Pauri Garhwal district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand and has served the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. He is the only Indian mountaineer to have climbed Mount Kanchenjunga through two routes, from Sikkim and Nepal. 
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