Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon gas, which helped them save several ...

A team of four British climbers has etched their names in mountaineering history, becoming the first to summit Mount Everest ...

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

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 ...

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

Four British former special forces soldiers have set a record by climbing Mount Everest in under five days without ...

Lukas Furtenbach of Furtenbach Adventures and his Mission Everest Team just summited Mount Everest in extremely windy conditions, five days after leaving the U.

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

KATHMANDU - Four British climbers have become the first to scale Mount Everest using Xenon gas , which helped them save ...

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 ...

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.