CLASS 9
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Rewari
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Delhi
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Jaipur
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Mumbai
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -III. Ans: When she completed college, Santosh had to write a letter of regret to her father since she had got herself joined Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering without his approval.
Detailed explanation-3: -Santosh family could send her to Delhi for education but they sent her to a local village. She got enrolled herself in a school in Delhi. After passing her high school she went to Jaipur and joined Maharani College.
Detailed explanation-4: -Santosh asserted that her feeling at the summit of the Everest was “indescribable”. Unfurling the Indian flag on the top of the world was a spiritual moment for her and she felt proud as an Indian.
Detailed explanation-5: -Equipped with an iron will, physical endurance and an amazing mental toughness, she proved herself repeatedly. The culmination of her hard work and sincerity came in 1992, just four years after she had shyly asked the Aravalli mountaineers if she could join them.