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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Everest climbers complete last leg of seven-day mission. The four British military veterans say they still haven’t processed a speed climb for which they used xenon gas to acclimatize before the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Using xenon gas treatment and the latest technology is making climbing Mount Everest not just faster but also better for the environment, cutting down garbage and waste, a ...

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.

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.

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 ...