Skydivers highest landing ever near Everest

[Ayesha Goyal]

Three skydivers, including one Indian, made the highest parachute landing ever at a drop zone near Mount Everest, Nepal officials said on Thursday.

Two Britons, Leo Dickinson and Ralph Mitchell, and one Indian, Ramesh Tripathi, sky-dived from a plane flying at 20,000 feet (6,100 metres) on Tuesday.

"They landed at the highest zone at Gorakshep," Tourism Ministry official Dipendra Poudel said. "This will open a new adventure tourism event in Nepal and more skydivers are coming to Nepal."

Gorakshep is a small patch of flat land at 16,940 feet near Mount Everest.

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