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• INTRO

  Name - Santosh Yadav

  Birthplace - Joniyawas, (Rewardi District) Haryana

  
  

  
  

  The only women in the world who scaled the Mt.Everest twice!
• FAMILY

  • Santosh was born in a society which valued sons over daughters, but her family did not wish for a son and loved her.
  • Santosh was the sixth child in a family of five sons, a sister to 5 brothers.
  • She was born in a small village of Joniyawas of Rewardi district in Haryana.
• CHILDHOOD

  • Her name, 'Santosh' meant 'contentment'. But she wasn't always content with with her place in a traditional way of life.
  • While other girls wore traditional dresses she preferred to wear shorts. (kinda 'pick me', ngl)
  • Her parents were affluent landowners and could afford to send her to a school in New Delhi.
• TRADITION

  • Most of the girls in her village usedto get married at the age of 16.
  • But Santosh, despite being pressured by her parents fought back.
  • She threatened them that she would never get married if she was not given proper education.
  • She left home, and go herself enrolled in a school in Delhi.
• COLLEGE

  • Wanting to study more, Santosh passed the high school examinations and went to Jaipur.
  • She joined the Maharani College and got a room at Kasturba Hostel.
  • In her room she had a window looking out onto the Aravalli Hills, where she'd see locals going up the hills.
• MOUNTAINEERING

  • At the Arravllis, she met few mountineers and asked to join them to which they gladly accepted.
  • She saved money and enrolled herself in a course at Uttarkashi's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.
  • There she went for expeditions every year. Her climbing skills matrued rapidly.
  • She had iron will, physical endurance and amazing mental toughness.
• SCALING THE MT.EVEREST

  • 1992 - Just four years after takng up Mountaineering, at barely the age of 20, Santosh Yadav scaled the Mt.Everest.
  • During the 1992 mission, She provided special care to a dying climber at South Col. She wasn't able to save him.
  • But she ended up saving another climber, Mohan Singh, by sharing her oxygen cylinder with him.
• ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Almost 12 months after, Santoh joined the Indo-Nepalese Women's Expedition and scaled the Mt.Everest AGAIN.
  • The Indian givernment bestowed upon her the nation's top honours, The Padmashri.
  • Santosh was also an environmentalist, so she collected and brought down 500 kgs of garbage from the Himalayas.