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History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.
Yesterday's Everest Day celebrations in Kathmandu marked the official closure of the 2025 season. Here's what this season ...
Kami Rita has been scaling the world's tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year—and sometimes ...
Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...
Four British climbers made it from London to the peak in under five days after preparations that included inhaling xenon gas.
Reaching the top of the world and returning to London within a week without so much as stopping for a coffee in Kathmandu ...
A group of British climbers have sparked a fierce debate after they reached the summit of Mount Everest in less than a week, ...
Satisfied with their full outer shells, noble gases are typically monatomic, indifferent to their peers. Despite their ...
Within five days, they were atop Mount Everest, the 29,000-foot peak where ... a new pre-acclimatization regime involving inhaling xenon gas—once used as an anesthetic but now more commonly ...
When Canadian Chris Dare attempted to climb Mount Everest in 2019, one of the challenges he faced was a serious overcrowding problem. There were so many people making the attempt that the final push ...