Four climbers went up and down Everest in under a week with the help of xenon gas—a record-breaking ascent that has ignited ...

Mount Everest’s Xenon-Gas Controversy Will Last Forever. ... they paid a reported $153,000 each for a bespoke protocol that included inhaling xenon gas to help them adjust more rapidly ...

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.

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 ...

Yet, this remains debatable, as xenon gas would also make climbing Mount Everest more popular, meaning that more people would try to reach the summit in less time, thereby creating more waste.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Austrian guide Lukas Furtenbach will lead a one-week trip to the top of Everest and back this year. Prior to the ascent, he and his clients will inhale xenon gas, which he says helps with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...