Eylem Elif Maviş
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Eylem Elif Maviş, née Koç, (1973) is the first Turkish woman mountaineer to climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth.
She was born on November 9, 1973 in Tokat, Turkey. She received her BS degree in Environmental Engineering and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. She holds another Master’s degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. A management systems specialist, she works as a software engineer. Elif is married to Bora Maviş, a college of her from the Iowa University and her teammate in mountain climbing.
On July 22, 2005 she successfully summited Gasherbrum II (8,035 m), the 14th highest peak of the world, with a Turkish team comprising six members. She and her team mate Burçak Özoğlu Poçan became the first Turkish women to climb over 8,000 m.
Elif reached the summit of Mount Everest (8,848 m) as the first member of a Turkish expedition team on May 15, 2006 at 3:00 UTC, followed by three others Haldun Ülkenli, Serkan Girgin and Soner Büyükatalay. The team, sponsored by Petrol Ofisi, consisted of eleven mountaineers.
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