A small crew out of the UK summited Everest in days with the help of xenon gas. Here's what xenon gas is, why it's used for climbing, and the risks of using it.

KATHMANDU, Nepal—Four men left London’s Heathrow Airport for Nepal on a May afternoon. Within five days, they were atop Mount Everest, the 29,000-foot peak where an ascent typically takes ...

Xenon is expensive, which has limited its use as an anesthetic and in athletics. But more people will probably shell out for the gas, given that the baseline cost of climbing Mount Everest is so ...

Those are xenon’s best-studied effects on human health. But the gas has also piqued interest in the sports medicine world because it can increase the production of erythropoietin (EPO), a ...

The use of xenon gas by a group of British mountaineers before they began an expedition to climb the world's highest mountain in less than five days has raised questions about its effectiveness ...

Four British climbers ascended Mount Everest in under a week, aided by a controversial new treatment called xenon gas. NBC News' Camila Bernal explains the controversy as some critics say it is ...

Whether the xenon added any benefit on top of the hypoxic tents is unclear, Dickinson says. Xenon is expensive, which has limited its use as an anesthetic and in athletics.

5 days to climb Everest Xenon is a colourless and odourless gas found in very small amounts in the Earth's atmosphere and is known to have some anaesthetic properties and medical uses, like helping to ...

Four British climbers, early this month, scaled Mount Everest and returned home, all within a week, thanks to a new and controversial method involving the inhalation of xenon gas.

Explained: How Xenon Gas Helped UK Veterans Climb Everest In Just 3 Days Some researchers say that inhaling xenon gas activates a molecule called hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), which the body ...

A group of British men went from London to the summit of Everest and back in less than a week with the help of xenon gas. Mountaineers and the Nepalese government weren’t pleased.

A renowned mountain guide revealed on Monday said that using xenon gas treatment and cutting-edge technology is not only expediting Mount Everest climbs but also minimizing environmental impact by ...