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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 The Girl Who Climbed Everest : The Inspirational Story of Alyssa Azar, Australia's Youngest Adventurer
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'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 shares the thrills and heartbreaking disappointments on the road to reaching her goal, and explains how she finds the courage and motivation to keep going in the face of overwhelming danger and adversity. Above all, Alyssa's story shows us that we can achieve anything if we dare to dream big. ' (Publication summary)

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2016 .
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      Extent: 272p.
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      • Published 19 September 2016
      ISBN: 9780143799573, 0143799576

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The Only Way Is up Elissa Lawrence , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 July 2016; (p. 14)
The Only Way Is up Elissa Lawrence , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 July 2016; (p. 14)
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