Santosh Yadav | |
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| Born | 10 October 1967 |
| Occupation | Mountaineer |
| Spouse(s) | Utham Kumar Lal (m.1992) |
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| Website | santoshyadavmountaineer |
Santosh Yadav (born on 10 October 1967) is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice[1] and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993 with an Indo-Nepalese Team.
During her Everest mission of 1992 she saved the life of another climber, Mohan Singh, by sharing oxygen with him. She also tried to help a mountaineer who lay dying at the South Col was unsuccessful in saving him.[2]
Early life and education
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 in Jaipur, where she was able to see mountaineers climbing Aravalli Ranges 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.[3]
Career
In 1992, Yadav scaled Mount Everest, becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat. This record was later broken. 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 first 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 National Adventure Award 1994 and Padma Shri in 2000.[4][1]
Expeditions
- In 1999, Santosh Yadav led an Indian mountaineering expedition to Kangshung Face, Everest.[5]
- In 2001, she led mountaineering team to East Face, Mount Everest.[5]
See also
- Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise
- List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
- List of Mount Everest records of India
- List of Mount Everest records
- List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
- Dicky Dolma
- Malavath Purna
- Chhurtm
References
- ^ a b "Santosh Yadav feels motivated to climb Everest again". News.webindia123.com. 11 May 2007. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
- ^ -, Beehive (2006). Textbook in English for class nineth. Publication Division, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110016: Central Board of Secondary Education. p. 102. ISBN 81-7450-502-4.
- ^ "On top of the world at Baluchi!". The Hindu. 29 May 2003. Archived from the original on 8 June 2003.
- ^ "National Adventure Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau, India. 20 July 1995. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ a b Menon, Shaym G. (25 May 2013). "No work on any expedition was below my dignity". The Hindus. Retrieved 2 July 2013.