Four ex-military friends are planning to summit Everest without the usual lengthy acclimitization period, relying on ...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon ...

British climbers first to scale Mount Everest using new method - Their climb is one of the fastest ascents on record of the ...

The British military veterans, climbing Everest to raise funds for vets, kept going despite an avalanche, high winds and a ...

Four former British special forces soldiers, who scaled Everest in record time, have found themselves in the middle of ...

An experienced Austrian mountaineer named Lukas Furtenbach has shortened Everest trips to weeks with “flash” expeditions that used hypoxic tents. He approached the four men with the idea of cutting ...

Xenon is a colourless, odourless gas with anaesthetic properties that can improve acclimatisation and protect against ...

Use of Xenon gas, believed to help prevent altitude sickness, reduce low-oxygen effects, stirs debate in mountaineering ...

The use of xenon gas may help cut the usual trip time from weeks to days. But not all members of the climbing community ...

It usually takes six to eight weeks to climb Mount Everest, but four ex-military friends are planning to accomplish it in a ...

Rather than taking weeks or months, climbers are trying to summit Everest in just 7 days by inhaling xenon gas. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Peter Hackett, a pioneer in altitude research.

Xenon, an inert gas, possesses a composition that dramatically ... John Waechter reached the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 ft.) on May 25th, 2001. With the ascent of Mt. Everest, he successfully ...