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| name = Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal<br />
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| birth_date = 10 January 1949<br />
| birth_place = Sachkhil, [[Pauri Garhwal district]], [[Uttarakhand]], India<br />
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| occupation = Police official<br/>Mountaineer<br />
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| known for = Everest and Kanchen Junga summiting<br />
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'''Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal''' (born 10 January 1949) is an Indian police official and mountaineer,<ref name="Everest: Summit of Achievement">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ph67BBsPkwC&q=Kanhaya+Lal+Pokhriyal&pg=PA249 | title=Everest: Summit of Achievement | publisher=Simon and Schuster | author=Royal Geographical Society | year=2003 | pages=252 | isbn=9780743243865}}</ref> known for climbing the highest peak in the world, [[Mount Everest]] in 1992.<ref name="MT. EVEREST EXPEDITION CONDUCTED BY ITBP">{{cite web | url=http://itbpolice.nic.in/eKiosk/writeReadData/sports/mountaineering.pdf | title=MT. EVEREST EXPEDITION CONDUCTED BY ITBP | publisher=Indo-Tibet Border Police | date=2015 | access-date=13 November 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015408/http://itbpolice.nic.in/eKiosk/writeReadData/sports/mountaineering.pdf | archive-date=17 November 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> 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]].<ref name="Mountaineers of Mount Everest of India">{{cite web | url=http://www.indianautographs.com/productdetail-208195.html | title=Mountaineers of Mount Everest of India | publisher=Indian Autographs | date=2015 | access-date=13 November 2015}}</ref> He is the only [[India]]n mountaineer to have climbed [[Kanchenjunga]] through two routes, from Sikkim and Nepal.<ref name="Core Team">{{cite web | url=http://api.ning.com/files/XXkEApvzFlJEoBb-ez4pEFxbz8C2YbRbn*LJIBhOJn6pZLBjodsWuBRbCJyDVbXNuJT8I1LM0P74kvqM-8TlX1rXpsDmmMME/CampUtopiaFamilyProgramsRaniChauri.pdf | title=Core Team | publisher=Utopia | date=2015 | access-date=13 November 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
* Received [[Padma Shri]] award by The [[Government of India]] in 2003.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Kalam presents Padma awards |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2003/apr/03padma.htm |work=[[Rediff.com]]}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[List of 20th century summiters of Mount Everest]]<br />
*[[Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise]]<br />
*[[List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit]]<br />
*[[List of Mount Everest records of India]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian summiteers of Mount Everest]]<br />
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