Santosh Yadav got into the record books both times she scaled Mt Everest. What were the reasons for this?
Santosh Yadav got into the record books for the first time when she scaled Mt. Everest at the age of twenty. She became the youngest woman in the world to climb Mt. Everest. She scaled the Everest for the second time next year, thus becoming the only woman in the world to do so.
How does she describe her feelings at the summit of the Everest?
It took Santosh sometime to understand the enormity of her achievement. She unfurled the Indian tricolour there. She felt proud as an Indian. It had a spiritual significance for her. She described her feelings as ‘indescribable’.
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