US EditionKenton Cool Sets Non-Sherpa Record with 19th Everest Ascent
- British mountaineer Kenton Cool reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 19th occasion on Sunday, setting a new record for the most ascents by a non-Sherpa climber on the 8,849-meter peak.
- His repeated ascents follow canceled climbing seasons in 2014 and 2020, plus deadly avalanches in 2014 and 2015 that caused significant fatalities among Sherpa guides.
- Cool, 51, from southwest England, has climbed Everest nearly every year since his first summit in 2004 and was equipped by Himalayan Guides Nepal for this expedition.
- With over 900 climbers attempting this spring season alongside Sherpa Kami Rita, who leads all climbers with 30 summits and is currently on the mountain, weather will soon worsen due to the monsoon.
- Cool’s climb highlights continuing high activity amid challenging conditions, while Kami Rita aims to reach a 31st summit soon before the season ends.
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New Hampshire Union LeaderEverest climbers head home on last leg of seven-day mission
At last, the four exhausted British men were able to exhale and begin to take stock of their accomplishment as they awaited their flight from Kathmandu, where they’d just climbed Mount Everest.
The ascent of Mount Everest is shrinking to a weekly trip. Four British climbers stand five days after their departure in London on the highest point of the earth - thanks to a new controversial concept.
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AlKhaleej TodayBritish ex-special forces climb Everest and back in seven days with xenon gas boost
KATHMANDU, May 21 — A British team of veteran ex-special forces soldiers summited Everest today, expedition organisers said, in a bid to fly from London, climb the highest peak and return home within seven days. The four men, who include government minister Alistair Carns, left London on Friday, pre-acclimatised to the low oxygen at high altitudes—including the controversial assistance of xenon gas, a method that has raised eyebrows in the mount…
Britons become first to scale Mount Everest using Xenon gas
Four British climbers became the first to scale Mount Everest on Wednesday using Xenon gas, which helped them save several weeks mountaineers need to get used to high altitudes, an official of their expedition organising company said.
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