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History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.
Four climbers went up and down Everest in under a week with the help of xenon gas—a record-breaking ascent that has ignited ...
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 ...
Xenon is a noble gas—colorless, odorless, inert. But it does affect the body. It’s been used as an anesthetic on occasion since the 1950s, says Robert Dickinson, a senior lecturer in medicine ...
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 ...
Mr. Furtenbach said that beginning in 2026 he planned to offer two-week round-trip excursions to Mount Everest using xenon gas, cutting the typical time needed to scale the mountain by several weeks.
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. From ...
Climbing Team Utilizing Xenon Gas Summits Mount Everest. Lukas Furtenbach recognizes that his extreme departure from the norm would attract skepticism and scorn from the mountaineering community.
KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon gas, which helped them save several weeks that mountaineers need to get used to high ...
Mount Everest’s Xenon-Gas Controversy Will Last Forever. Story by Alex Hutchinson • 1w. Updated at 2:45 p.m. ET on June 5, 2025. It was a travesty—two travesties, actually, separate but ...
Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon gas, which helped them save several weeks that mountaineers need to get used to high altitudes, an official ...