Cricketers Aim for World's Highest Match at the foot of Mount Everest.

A group of 18 professional and amateur British cricketers are trying to set a world record for holding the world's highest match at the foot of Mount Everest.

“Three teams are planning to play six aside on the mountain, playing five overs each on the Gorak Shap glacier,” Andrew Baud, spokesman for the Professional Cricketers Association, said in London.

The glacier-turned-cricket ground is at an altitude of 5184m, and just below base camp on the southern approach to Everest, the world's highest peak.

“They are taking 40 spare balls up there. I can imagine they will need them,” Mr Baud said.

“At normal altitude it would take about an hour, but it can get as low as minus -13C so it may take around two,” he said, adding the record attempt was being made from today.

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