Santosh Yadav - Wikipedia Santosh Yadav For the Indian cricketer, see Santosh Yadav ( cricketer ). Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice, and the first woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993. During her Everest mission of 1992 she saved the life of another climber, Mohan Singh, by sharing oxygen with him. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Expeditions 3 See also 4 References Early life and education She was born in Adygreg village in Rewari district of Haryana state, India. She attended Maharani College in Jaipur, where she was able to see mountaineers from her room. She was inspired by this to join Uttarkashi 's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering while successfully continuing her studies for the Indian Administrative Service ( IAS ) exams in a hostel provided by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation at Connought Place, New Delhi. Aged 20 in 1992, Yadav scaled Everest, becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat. Within twelve months, she became a member of an Indo - Nepalese Women 's expedition, and scaled Everest the second time, thus setting the record as the only woman to have scaled the Everest twice. Currently she is an officer in the Indo - Tibetan Border Police. She was a part of the nine - nation international climbing camp - cum - expedition to Nun Kun in 1989. Yadav was awarded the Padma Shri in 2000. Expeditions In 1999, Santosh Yadav led an Indian mountaineering expedition to Kangshung Face, Everest. In 2001, she led mountaineering team to East Face, Mt. Everest. See also List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit List of 20th - century summiters of Mount Everest Dicky Dolma Malavath Purna Chhurim References ^ Jump up to : `` Santosh Yadav feels motivated to climb Everest again ''. News.webindia123.com. 2007 - 05 - 11. Retrieved 2010 - 06 - 20. Jump up ^ `` On top of the world at Baluchi ! ''. The Hindu. 29 May 2003. Archived from the original on 2003 - 06 - 08. ^ Jump up to : Menon, Shaym G. ( 25 May 2013 ). `` ' No work on any expedition was below my dignity ' ''. The Hindu. Retrieved 2 July 2013. hide Indian mountaineers Premlata Agarwal H.P.S. Ahluwalia Chandraprabha Aitwal Avtar Singh Cheema Kalpana Dash Gurmayum Anita Devi Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu Dicky Dolma Phu Dorjee Chhanda Gayen Mohan Singh Gunjyal Sonam Gyatso Anshu Jamsenpa Narendra Dhar Jayal Ganesh Jena Kuntal Joisher Raghav Joneja Harish Kapadia D.K. Khullar Ajay Kothiyal Mohan Singh Kohli Aparna Kumar Narendra Kumar Poorna Malavath Tashi and Nungshi Malik Mastan Babu Malli Ashish Mane Shipra Mazumdar Tine Mena Tapi Mra Debabrata Mukherjee Bachendri Pal Subhash Pal Nirupama Pandey Ratnesh Pandey Tsewang Paljor Krushnaa Patil Kanhaya Lal Pokhriyal Arvind Raturi Harish Chandra Singh Rawat Tarun Saikia Nihal Sarkar Saurabh Singh Shekhawat Kushang Sherpa Arunima Sinha Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru Satyarup Siddhanta Mamta Sodha Arjun Vajpai Chandra Prakash Vohra Sonam Wangyal Santosh Yadav This biographical article related to Indian sports is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Santosh_Yadav&oldid=825621674 '' Categories : 1967 births Living people Indian female mountain climbers Indian mountain climbers Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports People from Rewari Sportswomen from Haryana Indian summiters of Mount Everest University of Rajasthan alumni 20th - century Indian women Mountain climbers from Haryana Indian sportspeople stubs Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from February 2018 Use Indian English from February 2018 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from August 2014 All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français ગુજરાતી हिन्दी മലയാളം मराठी नेपाली اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 14 February 2018, at 12 : 43. About Wikipedia

Question: the first indian woman who climbed mt.everest twice
Answer: Santosh Yadav