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==Career==
==Career==
In 1992, Yadav scaled [[Mount Everest]], becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat, a record was broken by 13-year-old [[Malavath Purna]] in 2013. 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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bhatt|first=Apurva|date=February 4, 2002|title=Santosh Yadav: On top of the world... twice|work=[[The Times of India]]|url=https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/santosh-yadav-on-top-of-the-world-twice/articleshow/2001629201.cms|access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> Currently, she is an officer in the [[Indo-Tibetan Border Police]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kamdar |first1=Seema |title=‘I became a mountaineer by fluke’ |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/i-became-a-mountaineer-by-fluke/article8312219.ece |work=The Hindu |date=4 March 2016 |language=en-IN}}</ref> She was a part of the nine-nation international climbing camp-cum-expedition to [[Nun Kun]] in 1989.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}
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]], in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Santosh Yadav, The World's First Woman To Have Scaled Mt Everest Twice |url=https://www.femina.in/trending/achievers/santosh-yadav-is-the-worlds-first-woman-to-have-scaled-mt-everest-twice-180693.html |website=femina.in |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bhatt|first=Apurva|date=February 4, 2002|title=Santosh Yadav: On top of the world... twice|work=[[The Times of India]]|url=https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/santosh-yadav-on-top-of-the-world-twice/articleshow/2001629201.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/delhi-times/santosh-yadav-on-top-of-the-world-twice/articleshow/2001629201.cms|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-06-15|access-date=8 November 2021}}</ref> She also remained as an officer in the [[Indo-Tibetan Border Police]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kamdar |first1=Seema |title='I became a mountaineer by fluke' |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/news/i-became-a-mountaineer-by-fluke/article8312219.ece |work=The Hindu |date=4 March 2016 |language=en-IN}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Santosh Yadav |url=http://www.indiaspeakersbureau.in/santosh-yadav/ |website=India Speakers Bureau {{!}} Motivational Speakers {{!}} Celebrities in India {{!}} Professional Speakers {{!}} Keynote Speakers}}</ref>


Yadav was awarded the [[Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award|National Adventure Award]] 1994 and [[Padma Shri]] in 2000.<ref name="t1994">{{cite press release|title=National Adventure Awards Announced|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/EDUCATION/1995-JAN-DEC-MO-YOUTH-AFFAIRS-&-SPORTS-NO-9/PDF/YTH-1995-07-20_034.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau, India|access-date=18 September 2020|date=20 July 1995}}</ref><ref name="iski" />
Santosh Yadav was awarded the [[Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award|National Adventure Award]] 1994 and [[Padma Shri]] in 2000.<ref name="t1994">{{cite press release|title=National Adventure Awards Announced|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/EDUCATION/1995-JAN-DEC-MO-YOUTH-AFFAIRS-&-SPORTS-NO-9/PDF/YTH-1995-07-20_034.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau, India|access-date=18 September 2020|date=20 July 1995}}</ref><ref name="iski" />


==Expeditions==
==Expeditions==
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[[Category:Mountain climbers from Haryana]]
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