[2] After completing her 10th class education, Chorol was accepted as a student at the SECMOL Alternative Institute near Ladakh's main city, Leh.
On an early trek, the local villagers spoke to her in English since they assumed no Ladakhi women would ever work as a trekking guide.
In order to train more guides to come into the Ladakhi trekking industry, the company bring younger, inexperienced women along as porters.
[8] 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.
[9] In January 2015, the Indian news website, The Weekend Leader in collaboration with Vellore Institute of Technology named Chorol their "Person of the year" 2014.
[10] The award was presented to her at a ceremony at VIT university on 11 March 2015 by K. Vijay Kumar, Special Security Adviser, Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
[15] And later, the magazine published her article, "A Trek Through Life" about her own experience from the village to becoming a trekking guide in an otherwise male dominated field.