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

Humans are not yet done cooking. We're continuing to evolve and adjust to the world around us, the records of our adaptations ...

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

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

Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon gas, which helped them save several ...

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 ...