13 Facts About Thinlas Chorol

Thinlas Chorol was born on 6 May 1981 and is a social entrepreneur and writer from Ladakh, India.

Thinlas Chorol founded the Ladakhi Women's Travel Company and has written articles on tourism in Ladakh and other issues.

Thinlas Chorol first gained notability when she in her early twenties started working as a trekking guide in the otherwise heavily male dominated trekking industry in Ladakh in northern India.

Thinlas Chorol's mother died at an early age, her father remarried, and Chorol grew up with her father, stepmother and seven siblings.

Thinlas Chorol got accustomed to spending time in the mountains from going with her father to tend the family's animals in the high pastures.

Thinlas Chorol went in the fear that something might happen to him if he went alone.

Thinlas Chorol tried to find work as a guide with some of the local trekking agencies, but was often rejected for being a woman.

Thinlas Chorol did her primary schooling in Takmachik, and secondary schooling from Domkhar, a neighboring village.

In January 2014, Thinlas Chorol was awarded the Indian Merchants Chamber Ladies' Wing's Jankidevi Bajaj Puraskar, an awards that is give in recognition of outstanding Indian female rural entrepreneurs.

Thinlas Chorol is the first person in the tourism category, the first Ladakhi, and the first women from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to receive the award that was first conferred in 1993.

Thinlas Chorol was selected for her contributions to the development of tourism in Ladakh and for creating job opportunities for Ladakhi women.

In 2014, Thinlas Chorol cofounded the society "Ladakhi Women's Welfare Network" and became its first President.

In 2007, Thinlas Chorol was awarded the "Sanjoy Ghosse Ladakh Women Writers' Award" by the non-governmental organization Charkha Development Communication Network.