Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal (born 10 January 1949) is an Indian police official and mountaineer, known for climbing the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest in 1992. 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. He is the only Indian mountaineer to have climbed Kanchenjunga through two routes, from Sikkim and Nepal.