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

Kenton Cool from southwest England, reached the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit Sunday before flying on a helicopter with his clients back to the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu ...

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has extended his felicitations to the youngest Everester, Kritika ...

The British military veterans, climbing Everest to raise funds for vets, kept going despite an avalanche, high winds and a ...

Why climb up a mountain just to come back down again, she'd say. Fast forward to May 15, when Schwerin became the youngest American woman to summit Mount Everest at age 17. At the top of the world, ...

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

A British minister is being investigated for using a controversial gas to climb Mount Everest in record-breaking time. Al ...

Newsom scuttled the finalization of a landmark waste law, leading CalRecycle to propose new rules. Critics say the rules ...

Tyler Andrews shares details from his aborted attempt at the Mount Everest speed record. The American is making a second attempt at the FKT later this week.

Four British mountaineers who reached the summit of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, on Wednesday by using Xenon gas, have sparked controversy.      The British climbers, who had inhaled ...

Four British climbers used Xenon gas to reach the summit of Mount Everest in less than five days, causing controversy.