Traditionally, climbers take more than a month to summit Everest. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

And yet, in high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels in the air people breathe are notably lower than lower ...

Use of Xenon gas, believed to help prevent altitude sickness, reduce low-oxygen effects, stirs debate in mountaineering ...

Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation has initiated an investigation into the use of Xenon gas by climbers ...

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

Rather than taking weeks or months, climbers are trying to summit Everest in just 7 days by inhaling xenon gas. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Peter Hackett, a pioneer in altitude research.

An expert mountain guide has put four of his clients on top of Mount Everest less than a week after they left London, one of ...

After a Czech climber suffered altitude sickness on the world’s highest peak, a helicopter pilot executed a dramatic ...

While affordability matters, Ye emphasizes cultural curiosity for future bus trips. He plans to visit historical sites in ...

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

The itinerary is simple. Four British men will hop on a plane Friday in London, fly roughly 4,600 miles to Kathmandu in Nepal ...

Four former British special forces soldiers have set a startling new precedent on Mount Everest, reaching the summit in under ...