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oe e, Aravalli Hills. I used to ;, room, going up the hill an, a while. One day | decided to check it yself., found nobody except a few mountair. ' i wou, 1 could join them, To my (levainthieeiin sik emi, answered in the aff ative and bse, take to climbing,” a, , g Then there: was no, determined young girl. She, in a course at Uttark, , %, , d Suddenly vanishing after, , they, , 1e to, , irm, , looking back for this, Saved money and enrolled, , ashi’s Nehru Institut :, che : Ie? Of, Mountaineering, My college semester in Jaipur was, , e Pposed to be in, the twenty-first. So, I did not go back home; instead,, I headed straight for the training. Thad to write a heeded wieght fo, Hos of apology to my father Without whose Went towards, permission I had got myself enrolled at Uttarkashi.”, is Thereafter, Santosh went on an, expedition every year. Her climbing », skills matured rapidly. Also, she, developed a remarkable resistance to, cold and the altitude. 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., At barely twenty years of age, Santosh, Yadav scaled Mt Everest, becoming the, youngest woman in the world to, achieve the feat. If her climbing skills,, physical fitness, and mental strength, impressed her seniors, her ee a Iron will, physical endurance and, others and desire to work together wi mental toughness characterise, them found her a special place in the Salitesh Yerdew., | hearts of fellow climbers., , , , Reach for the Top / 101 @