Mercedes Sahores
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| Full name | Mercedes Noel Sahores Rosauer | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 24, 1974 Neuquén Province, Argentina | |||||||||||||||||
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Mercedes Noel "Tety" Sahores Rosauer (born September 24, 1974) is an Argentine ski mountaineer and mountain climber. She is the first Argentine woman to climb the summit of the Mount Everest, on May 19, 2009.[1]
Biography[edit]
Sahores, daughter of Luis María Sahores Gattari and his wife Marta Irene Rosauer,[2] was born in the Neuquén Province as the youngest of four children. Her oldest brother Luis María ("Minino") died from Leukemia at the age of 20 years.
Sahores attended the Colegio San Martín and afterwards the Instituto María Auxiliadora in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, until 1993. Afterwards she studied biology at CAECE University in Buenos Aires until 2000.[3] She is member of the National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA), lives in San Carlos de Bariloche.[4][5]
Selected results[edit]
- 2005: 1st, South American Championship, individual
- 2009: 1st, South American Championship, individual
References[edit]
- ^ Mercedes Sahores: la neuquina que llegó más alto en el mundo Archived 2012-07-23 at archive.today (in Spanish)
- ^ Genealogia del Che Guevara
- ^ Personal information, Facebook
- ^ Mercedes Sahores Archived 2012-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, August 19, 2011.
- ^ Mercedes Sahores: la neuquina que llegó más alto en el mundo Archived 2012-07-23 at archive.today (in Spanish)
External links[edit]
- Mercedes Sahores at SkiMountaineering.org
- Mercedes Sahores at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
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