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

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

People who live in the Nepalese mountains have been guiding foreign climbers up the world's tallest mountain since the 1920s.

Ex-special force soldiers climb in record time after xenon gas treatment in Germany. Nepal launches an inquiry.

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

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

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 ...

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

Brabim Karki is a businessman based in Nepal. He writes for The Independent, The Globe and Mail, the South China Morning Post and The Straits Times, among others.

Lukas Furtenbach of Furtenbach Adventures and his Mission Everest Team just summited Mount Everest in extremely windy conditions, five days after leaving the U.

UNDP Youth Advocate and mountaineer Ikramul Hasan Shakil successfully scaled Mount Everest, after walking around 1,400 ...

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 ...