Holed up at the Mount Everest base camp waiting for the weather to clear, Malaysian veteran mountaineer T Ravichandran has set an ambitious goal for himself - to conquer two mountains exceeding the height of 8,000m in 24 hours.

Ravichandran, who is on the Himalaya Sport Everest-Lhotse Expedition 2023, is out to set two new records for Malaysians who come after him.

He is hoping that...