Traditionally, climbers take more than a month to summit Everest. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Four former British special forces soldiers, who scaled Everest in record time, have found themselves in the middle of controversy due to their use of xenon gas. The men used the chemical to speed up ...

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

Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation has initiated an investigation into the use of Xenon gas by climbers ...

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

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

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

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

An expert mountain guide has put four of his clients on top of Mount Everest less than a week after they left London, one of ...

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

A British team of veteran ex-special forces soldiers summited Everest on Wednesday, expedition organisers said, in a bid to ...

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.