CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The woman who has scaled the Mt. Everest twice is ____
A
Maria Sharapova
B
Pheobe Carey
C
Santosh Yadav
D
PV Sindhu
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Santosh Yadav (born 10 October 1967) is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice and the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993 with an Indo-Nepalese Team.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anshu Jamsenpa is an Indian mountaineer and the first woman in the world to scale the summit of Mount Everest twice in a season, and the fastest double summiter to do so within 5 days. It is also the fastest double ascent of the tallest crest by a woman.

Detailed explanation-3: -Junko Tabei ( , Tabei Junko, née Ishibashi; 22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016) was a Japanese mountaineer, author and a teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Unfurling the Indian flag on the top of the world was a spiritual moment for her and she felt proud as an Indian. 5. When Santosh Yadav first scaled Mt Everest, she became the youngest woman in the world to achieve the feat. When she scaled the Everest the second time, she became the only woman to have scaled it twice.

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