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Full name Mercedes Noel Sahores Rosauer Born September 24, 1974 (age 49) Neuquen Province, Argentina ( 1974-09-24 ) | ||
Mercedes Noel "Tety" Sahores Rosauer (born September 24, 1974) is an Argentine ski mountaineer and mountain climber. She was the first Argentine woman, who climbed the summit of the Mount Everest, on May 19, 2009.
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Sahores, daughter of Luis Maria Sahores Gattari and his wife Marta Irene Rosauer, was born in the Neuquen Province as the youngest of four children. Her oldest brother Luis Maria ("Minino") died from Leukemia at the age of 20 years.
Sahores attended the Colegio San Martin and afterwards the Instituto Maria Auxiliadora in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, until 1993. Afterwards she studied biology at CAECE University in Buenos Aires until 2000. She is member of the National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA), lives in San Carlos de Bariloche.