Highest cricket record

The teams played a Twenty20 cricket match at Gorakshep in Nepal, almost 17,000 feet above sea level on the southern side of the world’s highest mountain.

The record is yet to be ratified by Guinness World Records, which does not have an entry for the highest altitude for a field sport.
 
The two teams were named after New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay who were the first two mountaineers to conquer the peak in 1953.

Hillary defeats Tenzing

Organisers say they hope to raise more than $US365,000 ($A523,222) for charities from the match in which team Tenzing lost to team Hillary.

The group of 50 people which includes lawyers and medics trekked for nine days to reach the match site.

The trekkers trained for months to prepare for the mountain’s altitude, where the oxygen level is about two-thirds of what is available at sea level.