Santosh decided to fight the system in her own quiet way, says the author. How did Santosh rebel but quietly?
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Santosh was a very rational, progressive, and sensible girl, who wished to shape her life herself. Though it was not easy for a girl to fight the rigid system of those times. She waited patiently for the right moment to take up the issues with the orthodox, irrational and hackneyed traditions that obstructed her aspirations and her goals. Santosh left home for Delhi because her parents had begun to pressurise her to get married in keeping with the tradition. She told them politely that she would earn money for her fees by working part-time. She quietly made it clear that she was determined to overcome all obstacles. Santosh saved money and enrolled herself in a course at Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. She had thought of talking to her family about this during her holidays. Santosh got an opportunity to scale Mt. Everest in 1992, just four years after she had joined the Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.