A group of female footballers has set a double world record for playing the highest and lowest matches on Earth.
Women from more than 20 countries played at 5,714 metres in the crater at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in June 2017 before playing at the lowest point on earth at the Dead Sea in Jordan last week.
Pro players and competitive amateurs from around the world, including Australia, were involved in the two events.
Girls from Jordan get involved. Source: Twitter
The games were organised by Equal Playing Field, a non-profit organisation that challenges gender inequality in sport and promotes sports for girls.
Equal Playing Field was co-founded by British-born Australian Laura Youngson.
Ms Youngson told SBS News she started the group "to shine a spotlight on how sport, especially football, is 'default' male".
"From football kits to substandard pitches to a lack of funding, women's sport is always an afterthought," she said.
"It's important to me that we value our girls as much as we value our boys.
"Gender equity shouldn't just be an add on to society, it should be embedded in the decisions we take and the actions we deliver, so that the next generation can just play sport."
The Mount Kilimanjaro game was played at more than 1.75 kilometres higher than the highest stadium in the world, the Club Bamin Real Potosí in Bolivia.
Ms Youngson said game day in the crater was "was one of the hardest physical experiences most of us had ever gone through".
The Mount Kilimanjaro game. Source: Twitter
"Climbing in darkness, our water bottles froze, and we were unable to rest longer than four minutes at a time due to risk of hypothermia. That combined with fatigue from the six days prior and the lack of oxygen made it incredibly tough."
The Dead Sea game also came with its own challenges.
Last week's match was at the end of a gruelling 90km, 12-day trek where the women conducted exhibition games and football camps with girls in the area.
They then played at a specially-constructed pitch sponsored by Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein at the lowest point on earth.
"The double world record was made possible by the squad of awesome female athletes. For me, it was an incredible feeling to see my idea brought to life with the first record and then exceeded with the second," Ms Youngson said.
