What made Santosh scale Mt. Everest the second time? How was it important?
Santosh scaled Mt. Everest the second time as a member of an Indo-Nepalese Women’s Expedition. It was important as it secured a unique place for her and India by becoming the only woman to have scaled the Everest twice.
(i) What does it mean to be ‘on top of the world’?
(ii) What did Santosh do when she was on the top of the world?
(iii) Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following words:
(a) actually, (b) greatness.
Describe Santosh’s fight against the system?
What is the secret of Santosh’s success?
What kind of society was Santosh Yadav born in? How was her grandmother different from others?
