A Queensland woman hopes to become the youngest Australian to climb Mount Everest when she tackles the monster trek in two months . Alyssa Azar , 18 , has been climbing since she was five , mainly because her father , Glenn , is a Kokoda Track instructor . At just eight years old , she successfully completed on the iconic trail in Papua with his help . Alyssa Azar , 18 , has been climbing since she was five . Last year she attempted to climb Mount Everest ( pictured ) but an avalanche killed 16 Sherpa guides . Ms Azar hopes to become the youngest Australian to climb the world 's highest peak . She has gone on to climb Africa 's Mount Kilimanjaro , the 10 highest peaks in Australia , South America 's Mount Aconcagua in the Andes , and Nepal 's Ama Dablam and Manaslu . ' I started doing training when I was five or six , ' Ms Azar told Daily Mail Australia . 'As I got older I got onto the higher altitudes . 'After Kilimanjaro in 2011 , I decided I wanted to be a professional mountaineer ... and put myself against the best . ' Since climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 2011 , the teenager has been training to summit the Nepal mountain . She has been training hard , with her own equipment in the backyard ( left ) in Toowoomba in Queensland 's south east , including a rope climb ( right ) The 18-year-old caught the climbing bug largely due to her father , Glenn , who is a Kokoda Track guide . Here Ms Azar is seen pulling a tyre with a face mask on to help her train to withstand the altitude of the climb . On Friday , Ms Azar will make her second expedition to conquer the world 's highest peak , which stands at 8,848 metres above sea level . Last year the Toowoomba teenager was unsuccessful when an avalanche struck just days out from her planned climb and 16 Sherpa guides were killed . But the tragedy has not deterred her as the mountaineer attempts the summit again . If Ms Azar makes it to the top , she will beat the record set by Rex Pemberton , 21 , who climbed Mt Everest in 2005 . Here Ms Azar is pictured here with her dad when she was eight when she climbed the Kokoda Track in Papua . Since then the determined girl went on to complete many more feats before wanting to tackle Mt Everest . She is pictured here climbing Mt Kilimanjaro in 2011 . It was after this trek that she decided to take on her biggest challenge . Ms Azar representing her country with a flag on top of a mountain during her climb . If she is successful in climbing Mt Everest , she will beat a record set by Rex Pemberton , 21 , who climbed Mt Everest in 2005 . The 18-year-old has been training for the climb for years and has a set up in her backyard , which includes a rope climb . ' [ I do ] endurance work , I do a little of indoor rock climbing ... and I do a lot of basic workouts like swimming and running as well , ' Ms Azar told Daily Mail Australia . 'It ’ s been a long time coming now and I 'm ready to go and climb the mountain . ' Ms Azar will fly into Lukla - a town in Nepal 's north-east - and spend the first nine days of her two-month expedition trekking to base camp , which she describes as a 'comfortable trek ' . Ms Azar said she had decided to come a professional mountaineer and has climbed up Nepal 's Ama Dablam and Manaslu . Here she is trekking up South America 's Mount Aconcagua in the Andes at 4,200 metres . Her two-month expedition will take her from Lukla - in Nepal 's north-east - and will take her 8,848 metres above sea level . It will take her nine days to make the journey from the Nepalese town to the base camp of Mt Everest . Ms Azar said she loved mountaineering as it gave her a sense of adventure and let her experience nature . 'We start at [ an altitude of ] 3,000 metres in Lukla so we can adapt to the altitude and when we get to base camp it 'll be 5,000 metres , ' she said . Ms Azar , who describes herself as an introvert , said she loved mountaineering as it gave her a sense of adventure . ' I get really excited going to see new places and I like the intensity of Everest , ' she said . ' I 'm genuinely more introverted day-to-day ... and you get to be in your own head space . 'The realness of environment is definitely part of it as well . '
Alyssa Azar , from Toowoomba in Queensland , will climb Nepal 's Mt Everest . The 18-year-old will become the youngest Australian to do it if successful . The teenager started doing adventure climbs from the age of six years old . She did the Kokoda Track when she was just eight years old with her dad . Ms Azar has since climbed Mt Kilimanjaro and others around the world .