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

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

Mountaineers usually spend weeks or months acclimating to high altitudes before ascending Mt. Everest. But one group accomplished the feat in less than a week after using an anesthetic gas that ...

The British military veterans, climbing Everest to raise funds for vets, kept going despite an avalanche, high winds and a ...

Four former British special forces soldiers, who scaled Everest in record time, have found themselves in the middle of ...

The Everest team that used Xenon Gas to expedite the acclimatization process proved the method successful by summiting Mount ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

It usually takes six to eight weeks to climb Mount Everest, but four ex-military friends are planning to accomplish it in a ...