Melinder’s six-year-old daughter out to attempt mind-blowing feat


I wanna be like mum!: Melinder Kaur and her daughterJacquelin during a training session. Jacquelin will be attempting to scale the base camp of Mount Everest in September.

PETALING JAYA: She has a bubbly character and a heart-melting smile. And that is just the lighter side of six-year-old Jacquelin Kaur, who is on the verge of attempting a mind-blowing feat of scaling the Everest Base Camp in Nepal next month.

Jacquelin, who has been training for the tough mission under her mother Melinder Kaur, a former national middle distance runner, is making an attempt to enter the Malaysian Book of Records as the youngest Malaysian to scale the world’s highest base camp at an altitude of 5,364m.

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