Gabrielle Kanizay

Gabrielle (Gabby) Kanizay is a mountaineer, TEDx speaker and Marketing Communications Manager at AcademicJobs.com. On 14 May 2022, aged 19, she became the youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest (8,848m). The next day she summited Lhotse (8,516m), making her the youngest person in the world to complete the Everest–Lhotse double in under 48 hours. In 2019, aged 16, she became the youngest woman to summit Cho Oyu (8,201m). Australian Geographic named her Young Adventurer of the Year in 2022. She studied Commerce at the Australian National University and speaks about resilience and high-altitude climbing, including her TEDx talk "The Sherpa, Heroes of the Himalayas".