The Girl Who Climbed Everest: The inspirational story of Alyssa Azar, Australia's Youngest Adventurer
✍ Scribed by Williams, Sue
- Book ID
- 109923037
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 7 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781743484708
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✦ Synopsis
'I believe that nothing is impossible if you dare to dream, plan and take action. I'm an ordinary girl who simply refused to give up on a dream, and that's all it takes to succeed in life.' Alyssa Azar is unstoppable. When she was just eight years old, she walked the gruelling Kokoda Track, the youngest person in the world to do so. At twelve she climbed the ten highest peaks in Australia. Two years later she touched the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Now, at the age of nineteen, she has reached the roof of the world: the summit of Mount Everest. The Girl Who Climbed Everest is the inspiring story of how an ordinary girl from country Queensland worked towards ascending the world's highest peak. Through passion, determination and immense hard work, and despite being turned back twice - once by a deadly avalanche and the second time by a devastating earthquake that nearly claimed her life - Alyssa is the youngest Australian to have achieved this extraordinary feat. She...