A British expedition summited Everest in days while supplementing xenon. Is it the secret ingredient mountaineering has been ...

British climbers recently reached the top of Mount Everest in record time. They inhaled xenon gas before the trip. But was that the decisive factor?

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 ...

A group of British climbers have sparked a fierce debate after they reached the summit of Mount Everest in less than a week, crediting xenon gas as their secret weapon to acclimatize much quicker to ...

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 ...

A group of British men went from London to the summit of Everest and back in less than a week with the help of xenon gas. Mountaineers and the Nepalese government weren’t pleased. Four British ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Using xenon gas treatment and the latest technology is making climbing Mount Everest not just faster but also better for the environment, cutting down garbage and waste ...

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To skip the usual weeks or months spent gradually adjusting to high altitude, they paid a reported $153,000 each for a bespoke protocol that included inhaling xenon gas to help them adjust more ...

The use of xenon gas treatment has, however, drawn controversy and has even raised the concerns of Nepalese mountaineering authorities who have announced an investigation. “The only reason why ...