History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.

A British expedition summited Everest in days while supplementing xenon. Is it the secret ingredient mountaineering has been ...

An unconventional trip up Mount Everest by British climbers has started a bit of a debate. The group managed to fly from London, summit Everest and return home in under a week by using xenon gas.

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 ...

It was a travesty—two travesties, actually, separate but inextricably linked. In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a ...

But the use of xenon gas, promising to make the mountain even more accessible, has led to heated debate. Once the pinnacle of human endurance, Everest is already increasingly crowded and commercial.

Fries administered the xenon gas about a week and a half before departure. Whether the team’s success is attributable to xenon “is difficult to say,” Fries says.

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