Chapter Summary

“Reach for the Top” concerns the retelpng of biographies of two most renowned and prominent women in today s world of discrimination against women. The text is about two women named Santosh Yadav and Maria Sharapova and their passion for their achievements. It is seen that these two personapties have struggled in their pathways to achieve their dreams. The common aspect in both their pves regards the hardships they have endured by defying all odds. Through their firm decisions and determination, both these two personapties have achieved their dreams. In order to achieve this, it is noticed that they had sacrificed many things in their pves, and trained themselves very well. However, this text serves as an aspiration for all in pursuing their respective dreams.

About Santosh –Schoopng and Education

Why was the ‘holy man’ who gave Santosh’s mother his blessings surprised?

At the time of blessing, Santosh’s mother, the holy man got surprised as her grandmother seems to ask for blessings for a daughter and not for a son, which was quite unusual. In those days, civipans used to seek blessings for a boy and not a girl.

Give an example to show that even as a young girl Santosh was not ready to accept anything unreasonable.

In the text, Reach the Top, there are varied examples that show, that pttle girl Santosh, is not ready for things that did not seem reasonable to her. One example is that she used to wear shorts rather than the traditional dresses that were meant for the girls belonging to her society.

Why was Santosh sent to the local school?

In order to maintain the custom of the family respective to Santosh, she was sent to the local school. In her society, it is a serious notion to conform to the rules and customs that are maintained within the family.

About Santosh’s Schoopng and Education

In order to get a better education, Santosh left for Delhi at the age of sixteen and she informed her parents that she would join somewhere and work as a part-timer. The money she would earn will thereby help her to pay the school fees. This made her, parents think about her passion and so they got ready for providing her with the school fees. This incident showed pght on her notion of firm determination, which states that she does things that seemed right to her in order to achieve her dreams.

How did Santosh begin to cpmb mountains?

At Jaipur, Santosh joined the college named Maharani and she resided in the hostel named Kasturba. The location of this place is near to the Aravalp hills. On a daily basis, she used to see villagers cpmbing and getting disappeared after a while. This made her feel curious and this leads her to join the group of mountaineers one day and contributed to the journey to cpmbing mountains.

Santosh’s Everest expedition

During the expedition to Mount Everest, Santosh tried to save the pfe of one of her friends within the team. However, that incident was quite unsuccessful that lead her to increase her concern. This resulted in contributing to later incidents, where Santosh was successful in saving the pves of her fellow mates namely, Mohan Singh, sharing with him the oxygen cypnder.

Several reasons are there that lead to recording Santosh’s achievements for both times as she scaled Mt Everest. During the first time other of her expedition, she was recorded as being the youngest woman to have scaled Everest . On her second time, she was recorded as the first woman to have cpmbed Mt Everest two times.

About Maria Sharapova