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

Xenon gas-fuelled Everest summit sparks debate among mountaineers. On Air; ... and you still need to have camps and gas canisters and oxygen bottles carried for the summit." ...

The catch: They breathed canisters of pure oxygen, ... they paid a reported $153,000 each for a bespoke protocol that included inhaling xenon gas to help them adjust more rapidly. Meanwhile, ...

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It was a travesty—two travesties, actually, separate but inextricably linked. In May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a ...

Posiva has completed Finland’s first copper canister blank for nuclear waste disposal at the Onkalo repository.

A group of British climbers have sparked a fierce debate after they reached the summit of Mount Everest in less than a week, crediting xenon gas as their secret weapon to acclimatize much quicker to ...

The gas is often sold in small canisters called whippets or whip-its, nicknamed after aerosol chargers that propel whipped cream out of a canister. Why do people inhale nitrous oxide?

Nitrous oxide canisters seized from the vehicle in Wantage (Image: Thames Valley Police) Government guidance states that inhaling the gas, often done from a canister or balloon, can have ...