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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A Ukrainian man who lives in the United States said on Friday that he had completed a journey from sea level in New York to ...