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Answer of these question in a short paragraph (about 30 words).
Santosh Yadav got into the record books both times she scaled Mt Everest. What were the reasons for this?
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Solution
When Santosh Yadav first scaled Mt Everest, she became the youngest woman in the world to achieve the feat. When she scaled the Everest the second time, she became the only woman to have scaled it twice.
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