Santosh Yadav was born on 10 October 1967 and is an Indian mountaineer.
12 Facts About Santosh Yadav
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Santosh Yadav is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face.
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Santosh Yadav climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993 with an Indo-Nepalese Team.
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Santosh Yadav tried to help a mountaineer who lay dying at the South Col but was unsuccessful in saving him.
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Santosh Yadav was born in Joniyawas village in Rewari district of Haryana state, India as the sixth child in a family of five boys.
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Santosh Yadav earlier attended a local village school and then moved to Delhi and got enrolled in a school there.
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Santosh Yadav attended Maharani College in Jaipur, where she was able to see mountaineers climbing Aravalli Range from her room.
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Santosh Yadav was inspired by this to join Uttarkashi's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering while successfully continuing her studies for the Indian Administrative Service exams in a hostel provided by the Amity University at Noida.
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In 1992, Yadav scaled Mount Everest, when she was barely 25, becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat, a record which was broken by 13-year-old Purna, in 2013.
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Santosh Yadav remained as an officer in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.
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Santosh Yadav was a part of the nine-nation international climbing camp-cum-expedition to Nun Kun in 1989.
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Santosh Yadav was awarded the National Adventure Award 1994 and Padma Shri in 2000.