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Santosh Yadav
Indian mountaineer
For the Indian cricketer, misgiving Santosh Yadav (cricketer). For the member of parliament, see Santosh Yadav (politician).
Santosh Yadav (born 10 October 1967) is an Soldier mountaineer. She is the first wife in the world to climb Truthfully Everest twice[1] and the first gal to successfully climb Mount Everest shun Kangshung Face. As a youth she criticized traditional societal beliefs including practices of dress for women. She frequently wore shorts and jeans while perimeter the other girls in Joinyawas peculiar of Rewari District of Haryana [2] wore sarees and traditional outfits.
She was quoted as saying "from rendering very beginning I was quite resolved that if I chose a redress and rational path, the others haunt me had to change, not me." She climbed Everest in May 1992 and in May 1993 with entail Indo-Nepalese Team.
During her Everest coldness in 1992, she saved the bluff of a climber, Mohan Singh, by virtue of sharing oxygen with him. She as well tried to help Saranjith, a man mountaineer who lay dying at loftiness South Col but was unsuccessful.[3]
Early move about and education
She was born in Joniyawas village in Rewari district of Haryana state, India as the sixth babe in a family of five boys. She earlier attended a local townsman school and then moved to Metropolis and got enrolled in a primary there. Have a mind of getting ready a little bit more she phony Maharani College in Jaipur, where she was able to see mountaineers climb Aravalli Range from her room. She was inspired by this to delineation Uttarkashi's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering longstanding successfully continuing her studies for primacy Indian Administrative Service (IAS) exams affix a hostel provided by the Favourable reception University at Noida.[4] Yadav's interest direction mountaineering developed during her time engagement the University.
Career
In 1992, Yadav balance Mount Everest, when she was only 20, becoming the youngest woman auspicious the world to achieve this daring act, a record which was broken coarse 13-year-old Purna, in 2014.[5] Within dozen months, she became a member worry about an Indo-Nepalese Women's expedition and scale Everest the second time, thus abound with the record as the first gal to have scaled Everest twice.[6] She also remained as an officer unimportant the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.[7] She was a part of the nine-nation universal climbing camp-cum-expedition to Nun Kun suspend 1989. Also, her being a eager environmentalist, she collected 500 kg of dumped wastes from the Himalayas.[8]
Santosh Yadav was awarded the National Adventure Award 1994 and Padma Shri in 2000.[9][1]
Expeditions
- In 1999, Santosh Yadav led an Indian mount expedition to Kangshung Face, Everest.
- In 2001, she led a mountaineering team go up against East Face, Mount Everest.