Short summary of Chapter 8 part 1
Beehive English Chapter 8 Class 9
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Santosh Yadav, the first woman on Earth who has scaled the mighty Mount Everest twice. The story is a biographical piece about a woman who was born in a patriarchal society that does not offer a warm welcome to a daughter, like a son. She was born in a small village of Joniyawas located at Rewari District in Haryana. She was the sixth child of her family with five elder brothers. Although her parents were wealthy landowners, they were not so inclined to provide quality education to their children in good schools. Rather they chose the local village school for their children’s education. Despite growing up in a controlled environment, Santosh chose to defy the societal norms and carved a niche for herself.
From a young age, she was discriminated against on the basis of gender and decided to fight the system in her own way. When Santosh was sixteen years old, her parents pressurised her to tie the knot, like other girls of her village. But she chose not to give in to their pressure tactics. She told her parents firmly that she wanted to study further and wished to carve a place for herself in the society. Besides, she told them that if they objected she would fund her own education by working part-time jobs. Finally, they agreed to fund her education. Soon after that, she took admission at a school in Delhi and passed the high school examinations. Then she joined the Maharani College in Jaipur and booked a room in the Kasturba Hostel.
Since then, her life took a new turn when she enrolled in a course at Uttarkashi’s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering and participated in an expedition. Thereafter, every year she continued participating in an expedition to pursue her new dream of mountaineering. Her hard work finally paid off in 1992, when she climbed the mighty Mount Everest when she was barely twenty years old. She became the youngest woman to achieve such a feat and also saved a fellow mountaineer when she shared her oxygen with him. She secured a unique place for India and herself by creating history in mountaineering and scaling it twice in her lifetime. Santosh was awarded one of the highest civilian honours, the Padma Shri by the Indian government for achieving this marvellous feat.