Reach for the top.

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1. welcome to the PPT on Class 9 Chapter 8 Part 1 SANTHOSH YADAV. NCERT SOLUTION LINK IS AVAILABLE AT LAST SLIDE CHECK IT OUT!!!!

2. Reach for the Top

3. Introduction This lesson contains two parts. In part 1 it is told about the famous women mountaineer who scaled Mt.Everest two times that is Santhosh Yadav. In the second part it is told about famous women tennis player Maria Sharapova.

4. PART -1 SANTHOSH YADAV Santhosh was the only woman who scaled the mt Everest twice. She was born in a society where boy child were considered as boon and girl child were considered as a curse.

5. One day a holy man was travelling in the village and he came to Santhosh’s parents house. He thought like other families in the village Santhosh’s family also welcome a boy child but to his surprise they asked for a girl child. He was surprised.

6. Family Santhosh was born as sixth child in a family with 5 brothers. She was born in small village of Joniyawas of Rewari district in Haryana. The girl was given name Santhosh meaning contentment. She was not allowed to practice the traditional customs of girl child .

7. Santhosh’s parents was a affluent land owner. They could send Santhosh to Delhi Public school but dur to tradition and customs of the village she went to village school. She wanted to fight against the customs of villages but she was waiting for correct time and the correct time arrived at age of 16.

8. Against Marriage The right occurred at the age of sixteen. At the age of sixteen most the girls would get married in that village and Santhosh was forced by her parents for the same. But, she refused, the told she would not marry until she get her higher education. Her parents refused to pay the school fee. So, she planned to work part time and manage the fee. By seeing her determination in her education her parents agreed to pay.

9. Start of Carrier.. After completing her school education she thought to study more and went to Maharani college in Jaipur and joined Kasturba Hostel. The hostel faced Aravalli hill. She used to watch the villagers climbing up the hill and coming back in a while. One day she thought join them she saw some mountaineers and asked them and joined them.

10. Start of mountaineering… She joined Uttarkashi’s mountaineering Institute without her father’s permission. There after she didn’t look back and went forward. At the age of barely 20 she reached the summit of MT. Everest and she the youngest women in the world to climb. During 1992 in Everest mission she saved her fellow climber by sharing her oxygen cylinder. His name was Mohan Singh.

11. Second try… Within 1 year Santhosh found herself in INDO-NEPALESE WOMEN’S EXPEDITION. She then scaled mount evert twice. She secured a place for herself and made India proud. She was awarded Padmashri . She could not express her feeling. She was also a environmentalist she collected 500kg’s of Garbage from Himalayas.

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