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Everest climbers head home on last leg of seven-day mission
The British military veterans, climbing Everest to raise funds for vets, kept going despite an avalanche, high winds and a teammate’s illness.
British climbers first to scale Mount Everest using new method
A team of four British climbers has etched their names in mountaineering history, becoming the first to summit Mount Everest using Xenon gas, significantly reducing the acclimatisation period typically required for such a feat.
They want to climb Everest in a week using an anesthetic gas. Critics warn it’s dangerous
Four ex-military friends are planning to summit Everest without the usual lengthy acclimitization period, relying on inhalations of noble gas xenon to prepare them, despite warnings this method may be unsafe and unethical.
4 Ex-Military Friends Scale Mount Everest, Used This Gas To Climb Faster
A British team of veteran ex-special forces soldiers summited Everest on Wednesday, expedition organisers said, in a bid to fly from London, climb the highest peak and return home within seven days.
Four men court controversy with audacious plan to scale Everest in one week
The use of xenon gas may help cut the usual trip time from weeks to days. But not all members of the climbing community approve of the potentially speedy climb.
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Everest in five days: British team’s speed climb triggers probe
Ex-special force soldiers climb in record time after xenon gas treatment in Germany. Nepal launches an inquiry.
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