London (PTI): Cricket touched a new high with a few mountaineers playing a Twenty20 match just above the base camp of the world's highest peak — the Mount Everest — to raise £250,000 for charity.

The two teams, Tenzing and Hillary, named after the first two men to climb the Everest, played the game at 16,945 feet.

Team Tenzing were led by Haydn Main, 29, a lawyer from South London but it was Team Hillary, skippered by a New Zealand Glen Lowis, that won by 36 runs.

Both sides took 15 players for the game, besides the medical staff and groundsmen, all of whom made the nine-day trek to reach the pitch.

Both sides celebrated their feat with a giant bottle of champagne and several cups of tea. They raised £250,000 through the game for Lord' Taverners and the Himalayan Trust U.K..

The match was played on a pitch on the Gorak Shep plateau in Nepal, Richard Kirtley, the expedition leader told The Times.

"I assumed they must use it as a pitch. So I asked a few of the locals, but no one had ever thought about doing it," he said.