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About 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 mountaineer to have climbed Mount Kanchenjunga through two routes, from Sikkim and Nepal.
- The Government of India awarded him the civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2003.
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