Santosh yadav

The brave mountaineer-Santosh yadav

Let's get some information about santosh yadav. She is the only women in the world who scaled the mount everest twice. 

She was born in a society where the births of son was regarded as a blessing, and a doughter though not considered a curse was not a genrally welcome. When her mother was excepting santosh a travelling holy man 

giving her blessing assumed that she wanted a son. But to everyone surprise,the unborn child's  grandmother who was standing close by that she wanted a girl. The holy man was also suprised ! 

Santos yadav born place

Santosh was born in 10 october 1967. She was born sixth child in a family with five sons a sister to five brothers. She was born in small village of  joniyawas of Rewari district in haryana.

 

Meaning of santosh

The girl was given name santosh which means  contentment. But santosh was not always content with. her place in a traditional way of life. She began living life on her own terms from start. Where other girls wore traditional indian dresses, santosh preferred shorts . Looking back she says now, "From the very beginning I was quite determined that if I choose a correct rational path, the others around me had to change , not me.

Financial condition of santosh's family

Santosh parents were affluent landowner who could afford to send their children to the best school even the country's  capital Delhi which was quite close by. But in line with the prevaling custom in the family santosh . But santosh do with the local school of hier village . Means santosh done her primary education in her village school. So, she decided

to fight the system in her own quiet way whenthe right moment arrived. And the right momentcame when she turned sixteen. At sixteen, most ofthe girls in her village used to get married.

Santosh was also under pressure from her parentsto do the same.

A marriage as early as that was the last thing

on her mind. She threatened her parents that shewould never marry if she did not get a propereducation. She left home and got herself enrolledin a school in Delhi. When her parents refused to pay for her education, she politely informed them of her plans to earn money by working part time to pay her school fees. Her parents then agreed.

 

How santosh yadav started mountaineering ?

Wishing always to study “a bit more” and with her father slowly getting used to her urge for more education, Santosh passed the high school examinations and went to Jaipur. She joined Maharani College and got a room in Kasturba Hostel. Santosh remembers, “Kasturba Hostel faced the Aravali hills.used to watch villagers from my

room, going up the hill and suddenly vanishing after a while. One day I decided to check it out myself. I found nobody except a few mountaineers. I asked if I could join them. To my pleasant surprise, they

answered in the affirmative and motivated me to take to climbing.”

Then there was no looking back for this

determined young girl. She saved money and enrolled in a course at Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. “My college semester in Jaipur was

to end in April but it ended on the nineteenth of May. And I was supposed to be in Uttarkashi on the twenty-first. So, I did not go back home; instead, I headed straight for the training. I had to write a letter of apology to my father without whose permission I had got myself enrolled at Uttarkashi.”

Thereafter, Santosh went on an

expedition every year. Her climbing

skills matured rapidly. Also, she

developed a remarkable resistance to

cold and the altitude. Equipped with

an iron will, physical endurance and

an amazing mental toughness, she

proved herself repeatedly. The

culmination of her hard work and

sincerity came in 1992, just four years

after she had shyly asked the Aravalli

mountaineers if she could join them.

At barely twenty years of age, Santosh

Yadav scaled Mt Everest, becoming the

youngest woman in the world to

achieve the feat. If her climbing skills,

physical fitness, and mental strength

impressed her seniors, her concern for

others and desire to work together with

them found her a special place in the fellow climbers.

During everest mission

During the 1992 Everest mission, Santosh Yadav provided special care to a climber who lay dying at the South Col. She was unfortunately unsuccessful in saving him. However, she managed to save

another climber, Mohan Singh, who would have met with the same fate had she not shared her oxygen with him.

Within twelve months, Santosh found herself a member of an Indo-Nepalese Women’s Expedition that invited her to join them. She then scaled the Everest a second time, thus setting a record as the

only woman to have scaled the Everest twice, and securing for herself and India a unique place in the annals of mountaineering. In recognition

of her achievements, the Indian government

bestowed upon her one of the nation’s top honours,the Padmashri.

Describing her feelings when she was literally 'on top of the world’, Santosh has said, “It took some time for the enormity of the moment to sink in. Then I unfurled the Indian tricolour and held it aloft on the roof of the world. The feeling is indescribable. The Indian flag was flying on top of

the world. It was truly a spiritual moment. I felt proud as an Indian.”

Also a fervent environmentalist, Santosh

collected and brought down 500 kilograms of

garbage from the Himalayas.

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