Santosh Yadav
Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice, and the first woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993.
Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice, and the first woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993.
During her Everest mission of 1992 she saved the life of another
climber, Mohan Singh, by sharing oxygen with him.
She was born in Joniyawas village in Rewari district
of Haryana state, India as the sixth child in a family of five boys. She
attended Maharani College inJaipur,
where she was able to see mountaineers from her room. She was inspired by this
to join Uttarkashi's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering while successfully
continuing her studies for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) exams in a hostel provided by the Indian
Mountaineering Foundation at Connought Place, New
Delhi.
Aged 20 in 1992, Yadav scaled Everest, becoming the
youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat. Within twelve months, she
became a member of an Indo-Nepalese Women's expedition, and scaled Everest the
second time, thus setting the record as the only woman to have scaled the
Everest twice. Currently she is an officer in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.
She was a part of the nine-nation international climbing camp-cum-expedition to
Nun Kun in 1989.
Yadav was awarded the
Padma Shri in 2000.
Ms. Santosh Yadav
has been visiting & delivering her expert lecture on Motivation,
Leadership, Team Building, Risk Management, Disaster Management and Environment
& Ecology in Premier Institutions, i.e. LBSNAA & IIMs, IITs, Government
Institutions, Educational Institutions, Universities , Colleges, Schools, MNCs
and other Companies & Distinguished Gathering in India & abroad with a
view to motivating youths and promoting education and adventure sports in
national interest, free of cost. She never charges any money for her lecture.
She was done human services in enthusing women and specially girls in asserting
their individually and rightful place in the Indian society. She has had to and
still struggling to make a place for women in this world.
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