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Some see a record-breaking ascent by British climbers who used xenon as a breakthrough, but others view it as the latest affront to Mount Everest’s dignity - Anadolu Ajansı ...

On May 8, 1978, world-renowned alpinist Reinhold Messner and his frequent partner, Peter Habeler, became the first to summit ...

A mountaineering group climbed Mt. Everest door-to-door from Great Britain in just a week with the use of Xenon gas. Tenzing ...

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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, ...

“Dishonesty even with Mount Everest?" he said ... an innovation climbers made about a century ago that gained wide use. Xenon gas was banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2014 after ...

Within five days, they were atop Mount Everest, the 29,000-foot peak ... a new pre-acclimatization regime involving inhaling xenon gas—once used as an anesthetic but now more commonly found ...