For the mountaineers, climbing the peaks of Mount Everest is the piece de resistance of their careers. What a lot of people don't realize is that accomplishing the feat will likely take upwards of two ...

Climbing high requires physiological adjustment. Humans were not designed to live at altitudes pushing 8,000 meters – the Death Zone. But our bodies can adjust. The process of acclimatization allows ...

KATHMANDU, May 21 (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 ...

A group of British men went from London to the summit of Everest and back in less than a week with the help of xenon gas. Mountaineers and the Nepalese government weren’t pleased. Four British ...

Last week a quartet of British climbers made it to the top of Mount Everest—and spent less than a week on the total round trip from London. That’s weeks fewer than it usually takes to acclimate to the ...