In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a challenge that had killed more than a dozen people in the preceding decades and that ...

A mountaineering group climbed Mt. Everest door-to-door from Great Britain in just a week with the use of Xenon gas. Tenzing Norgay’s son Norbu weighs in.

Xenon is a noble gas—colorless, odorless, inert. But it does affect the body. It’s been used as an anesthetic on occasion since the 1950s, says Robert Dickinson, a senior lecturer in medicine ...

This article gives details about the expedition, examines the use of xenon gas, and discusses why mountaineer ethics are at stake. A Group of Britons Summit Mount Everest In Less Than A Week ...

Four British climbers pose on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal last Wednesday. The mountain guide who arranged their trek said he and the team had inhaled xenon gas in Germany before embarking ...

Some see a record-breaking ascent by British climbers who used xenon as a breakthrough, but others view it as the latest ...

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he and his clients will inhale xenon gas, which he says helps with ...

Four British climbers ascended Mount Everest in under a week, aided by a controversial new treatment called xenon gas. NBC ...

Mr. Furtenbach said that beginning in 2026 he planned to offer two-week round-trip excursions to Mount Everest using xenon gas, cutting the typical time needed to scale the mountain by several weeks.

The itinerary is simple. Four British men hopped on a plane Friday in London, flew roughly 4,600 miles to Kathmandu in Nepal and then boarded a helicopter to Mount Everest’s base camp. From ...

Mount Everest’s Xenon-Gas Controversy Will Last Forever. ... they paid a reported $153,000 each for a bespoke protocol that included inhaling xenon gas to help them adjust more rapidly ...

Xenon is expensive, which has limited its use as an anesthetic and in athletics. But more people will probably shell out for the gas, given that the baseline cost of climbing Mount Everest is so ...