19: Alyssa Azar - Youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest
About this episode
In this episode of The Physical Performance Show I have a fire-side chat with Extreme Adventurer and the youngest person to climb Mount Everest, Alyssa Azar.
Listen in as we delve into the following:
- When Alyssa first decided to summit Mount Everest
- Alyssa was the youngest person to do Kokoda
- Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at 14
- Alyssa loved boxing first before Trekking, then climbing
- How Alyssa developed her love of mountaineering
- Alyssa experiencing a massive avalanche on Mount Everest
- Alyssa's training regime
- Going back for a third expedition to Mount Everest
- How dangerous the sections are between camps
- Daylight to Darkness ratio on Mount Everest
- What the top of Mount Everest is like
- Alyssa's book coming out in September – the girl who climbed Everest
- Alyssa's next challenge will be the 7 summits
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