History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.

Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...

Satisfied with their full outer shells, noble gases are typically monatomic, indifferent to their peers. Despite their ...

A group of British climbers have sparked a fierce debate after they reached the summit of Mount Everest in less than a week, ...

Four British climbers made it from London to the peak in under five days after preparations that included inhaling xenon gas.

Kami Rita has been scaling the world's tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year—and sometimes ...

And despite climate worries, such is the pull of Himalayan mountaineering that the Everest Industry showed no signs of ...

Climbers are split over a British team’s use of xenon gas to climb Mount Everest in just four days. One Wyoming Everest ...

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

Last week a quartet of British climbers made it to the top of Mount Everest—and spent less than a week on the total round ...

A team of British climbers used xenon gas to decrease the 6 to 8 weeks usually needed to acclimate to the thin air on the ...