History is repeating itself in the world of controversial sports records.

Our Everest reporter explains the biggest stories from the 2025 season: fewer fatalities than in 2024, a narrow weather ...

A group of British climbers have sparked a fierce debate after they reached the summit of Mount Everest in less than a week, ...

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 ...

Four men left London’s Heathrow Airport for Nepal on a May afternoon. Within five days, they were atop Mount Everest, the ...

Mount Everest’s Xenon-Gas Controversy Will Last Forever Alex Hutchinson Wed, June 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM UTC 11 min read It was a travesty—two travesties, actually, separate but inextricably ...

But on 21 May 2025, four former members of the British special forces turned this dream into reality when they stood on the summit of Mount Everest four days and 11 hours after leaving the UK. Their ...