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Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal
Indian police officer and mountaineer (born 1949) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Awards
- Received Padma Shri award by The Government of India in 2003.[5][6]
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