CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -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) Why did the young girl enroll herself in the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering?

Detailed explanation-2: -Santosh Yadav is the first woman to climb Mount Everest twice – first in May 1992, and then again in May 1993 – with an Indo-Nepalese team. She is also the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from the Kangshung Face, the eastern-facing side that is considered much more difficult than the other sides.

Detailed explanation-3: -Had she not been a mountaineer, Padmashri award winner Santosh Yadav (48) would have been an environmentalist. She was the first woman to climb the 29, 035 feet high Mount Everest twice, in 1992 and 1993, and the first woman to climb it from its Kangshung face.

Detailed explanation-4: -Solution : Santosh was twenty years old when she climbed Mount Everest for the first time, she got into the record books because she became the youngest woman in the world to achieve the feat. And she also became the only woman to scale the Everest twice due to which she again got her name into record books.