The Physical Performance Show: Alyssa Azar – Youngest Australian to Summit Mount Everest
Episode 19: Youngest Australian to Summit Mount Everest – Alyssa Azar
Brad Beer recently sat down with Youngest Australian to Summit Mount Everest – Alyssa Azar for Episode 19 of The Physical Performance Show podcast.
Brad has a fire-side chat with Alyssa, discussing the highs and lows of her journey to become the youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest.
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In this episode Alyssa shares:
- 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 by Sue Williams
- Alyssa’s next challenge will be the 7 summits
To follow Alyssa Azar
To follow Alyssa on social @alyssaazar (Twitter), @alyssaazar (Insta), Facebook
Adventure Professionals Website
Book – The Girl Who Climbed Everest by Sue Williams
Timeline
1:00 Welcome to Alyssa Azar
3:00 How did you get into wanting to summit Mount Everest
4:50 Alyssa was the youngest person to do Kokoda
8:00 Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at 14
10:35 Alyssa loved boxing first before Trekking, then climbing
12:30 How Alyssa developed her love of mountaineering
18:30 Alyssa experiencing a massive avalanche on Mount Everest
22:40 Alyssa’s training regime
24:50 Going back for a third expedition to Mount Everest
30:30 How dangerous are these sections between camps?
33:30 Daylight to Darkness ratio on Mount Everest
36:30 What the top of Mount Everest like
40:11 Alyssa’s press release
43:30 Alyssa’s book coming out in September – The Girl Who Climbed Everest
44:50 Alyssa’s next challenge will be the 7 summits
47:50 Who Alyssa admires
49:44 Nutrition requirements
54:00 Finish
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