Sunita Singh Choken

Sunita Singh Choken, born around 1985, is an Indian mountaineer and activist who grew up in Rewari, Haryana, and Kishorpura, Rajasthan, and studied mountaineering in Manali and Darjeeling. She climbed Mount Everest in 2011 at the age of 25, making her the youngest woman from Haryana to make the ascent, and then scaled several other Himalayan peaks. In 2017 she cycled 4,656 kilometres from Kanyakumari to Leh to promote the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign and the environment, and in 2018 she cycled 5,000 kilometres from Somnath to Nepal. She became a deputy superintendent of police in Haryana in 2018 and received the 2016 Nari Shakti Puraskar.