Xenon is one of the six noble gases. Its name derives from the Greek word for “strange”. In medicine, it has been used as an ...

The amateur mountaineers will pay over $150,000 per head to climb to the roof of the planet, given over to the promises of ...

Climbing techniques have evolved over centuries, often creating controversy and debate. The use of acclimatization methods to expedite expeditions lies at the c ...

Researchers uncover promising evidence that xenon gas, commonly used in anesthesia, may help reduce brain deterioration and ...

Lukas Furtenbach explains why using Xenon to help climb Everest in a week is a new tool but is really no different than ...

Acclimatiztion Climbing high requires physiological adjustment. Humans were not designed to live at altitudes pushing 8,000 meters – the Death Zone. But our bod ...

Mountaineers summit the world's highest mountains through the process of slowly acclimating to thin air - now technology intervenes.

Could inhaling xenon gas help fight Alzheimer’s disease? In the January 15 Science Translational Medicine, scientists led by Oleg Butovsky at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and David Holtzman ...

In a trial featuring a mouse model of Alzheimer's, scientists found that inhaling a mixture containing xenon gas helped ...

Encouraged by these results, they are starting a clinical trial of xenon gas in people. Lukas Furtenbach, a mountain guide and climber from Austria, who is helping Miller on his Everest challenge ...

Lukas Furtenbach, a mountain guide and climber from Austria, who is helping Miller on his Everest challenge, is convinced that inhaling the xenon gas mixture aided his rapid ascent of Aconcagua in ...