Santosh Yadav

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For the Indian cricketer, see Santosh Yadav (cricketer). For the politician, see Santosh Yadav (politician).

Santosh Yadav
The renowned mountaineer, Smt. Santosh Yadav releasing a book ‘Parvatarohan Ka Romanch’, brought by the Publications Division, in New Delhi on September 04, 2008 (cropped).jpg
Yadav in 2008
Born (1967-10-10) 10 October 1967 (age 56)
Joniyawas, Rewari, Haryana, India
OccupationMountaineer
Spouse(s)Utham Kumar Lal (m.1992)
Awards
Websitesantoshyadavmountaineer.com

Santosh Yadav (born 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 but was unsuccessful in saving him.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

She was born in Joniyawas village in Rewari district of Haryana state, India as the sixth child in a family of five boys. She earlier attended a local village school and then moved to Delhi and got enrolled in a school there. She attended Maharani College in Jaipur, where she was able to see mountaineers climbing Aravalli Range 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 Amity University at Noida.[3]

Career[edit]

In 1992, Yadav scaled Mount Everest, when she was barely twenty, becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat, a record which was broken by 13-year-old Malavath Purna, with in 2013.[4] 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 Everest twice.[5] She also remained as an officer in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.[6] She was a part of the nine-nation international climbing camp-cum-expedition to Nun Kun in 1989. Also her being a fervent environmentalist, she collected 500 kgs of dumped wastes from the Himalayas.[7]

Santosh Yadav was awarded the National Adventure Award 1994 and Padma Shri in 2000.[8][1]

Expeditions[edit]

  • In 1999, Santosh Yadav led an Indian mountaineering expedition to Kangshung Face, Everest.[9]
  • In 2001, she led mountaineering team to East Face, Mount Everest.[9]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Santosh Yadav feels motivated to climb Everest again". News.webindia123.com. 11 May 2007. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  2. ↑ -, Beehive (2006). Textbook in English for class IX. 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ↑ "On top of the world at Baluchi!". The Hindu. 29 May 2003. Archived from the original on 8 June 2003.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ↑ "Meet Santosh Yadav, The World's First Woman To Have Scaled Mt Everest Twice". femina.in.
  5. ↑ Bhatt, Apurva (February 4,2002). "Santosh Yadav: On top of the world.... twice". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 November 2021. {{cite news}}: |archive-url= is malformed: timestamp (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ Kamdar, Seema (4 March 2016). "'I became a mountaineer by fluke'". The Hindu.
  7. ↑ "Santosh Yadav". India Speakers Bureau | Motivational Speakers | Celebrities in India | Professional Speakers | Keynote Speakers.
  8. ↑ "National Adventure Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau, India. 20 July 1995. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Menon, Shaym G. (25 May 2013). "No work on any expedition was below my dignity". The Hindus. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
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