Beauties meet the challenge

Six professional, good-looking women in their 20s are whispering together while taking a dip in the swimming pool.

This is not an episode of Sex and the City, rather it is the Australian team plotting together in a game called "treasure hunt in hot-spring", at the 2009 Meiyue Cup International Beauty Romantic Challenge, held in a mountainous area of Ganzi Tibetan autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, earlier this month.

There were eight teams in total, including the Aussies, Canadian, South Korean, British and four Chinese teams. The team from Shanghai won the eight-day challenge, during which it competed in 12 events, including weight-bearing mountaineering, primary forest trekking, mountain cycling, glacier crossing - all at the altitude of 3,000 m to 4,000 m.