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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Ushakov said that in an attempt to make a fast ascent of Everest last year, he reached 8,500 m (27,880 ft) but developed a ...

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

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 ...

Mr Andrew Ushakov said he did not use Xenon gas. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.