Santosh Yadav: Difference between revisions

| name     = Santosh Yadav

| image   = 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

| caption     = Yadav in 2008

| awards   = *[[Padma Shri]] Award (2000)

| spouse     = Utham Kumar Lal (m.1992)  

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[[Mountaineering|Mountaineer]]

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1967|10|10}}  

| birth_place = [[Joniawas|Joniyawas]], [[Rewari]], [[Haryana]], India

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| website     = [https://santoshyadavmountaineer.com/ santoshyadavmountaineer]

'''Santosh Yadav''' (birth 10 October 1967) is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb [[Mount Everest]] twice<ref name=iski>{{cite web|url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=705110686&cat=&n_date=20070511 |title=Santosh Yadav feels motivated to climb Everest again |publisher=News.webindia123.com |date=2007-05-11 |access-date=2010-06-20}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite book|last=-|first=Beehive|title=Textbook in English for class IX|publisher=Central Board of Secondary Education|year=2006|isbn=81-7450-502-4|location=Publication Division, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi 110016|pages=102}}</ref>

She was born in [[Joniawas|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 [[Indian Mountaineering Foundation]] at Connought Place, [[New Delhi]].<ref name="hindu">{{cite news |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/05/29/stories/2003052901110400.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030608070719/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/05/29/stories/2003052901110400.htm |archive-date=2003-06-08 |title=On top of the world at Baluchi! |date=29 May 2003 |work=The Hindu}}</ref>

In 1992, Yadav scaled [[Mount Everest]], becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat. This record was broken by Malavath Purna(13 years 11 months). 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.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}