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

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

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 ...

The Everest team that used Xenon Gas to expedite the acclimatization process proved the method successful by summiting Mount ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four British climbers used Xenon gas to reach the summit of Mount Everest in less than five days, causing controversy.

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

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.