Published on: 2025-06-14 18:09:15
Climbing Mount Everest typically takes weeks, with most of that time spent at the foot of the mountain adjusting to the thin air. But four British men last week shrank that timeline dramatically, traveling from London to the summit and back in less than a week, according to the organizer of their expedition. They skipped the adjustment period, in part, by inhaling a secret weapon: xenon gas. Their feat has roiled the world of mountaineering and prompted an investigation by the Nepalese governm
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is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Succession creator Jesse Armstrong has never been subtle with his commentary on the rich and powerful, but the new trailer for his HBO feature Mountainhead spells out exactly what makes its central characters people you shouldn’t be rooting for. Set in a remote cabin at the top of a mountain, Mountainhead revolves around a quartet of
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Cerro El Cono is isolated from a nearby mountain range and has an unusual shape. QUICK FACTS Name: Cerro El Cono, also known as "Montaña Cónica" Location: Sierra del Divisor, Peruvian Amazon rainforest Coordinates: -7.963010971488621, -73.78224313086483 Why it's incredible: El Cono stands alone in the rainforest and has a mysterious pyramidal shape. Cerro El Cono is a 1,310-foot-tall (400 meters), pyramid-like formation in the Amazon rainforest . It rises steeply from the relatively flat jungl
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An inexperienced climber became stranded on Mount Fuji last week, after climbing to the top of the Japanese mountain and losing some of their climbing gear. As if that weren’t bad enough, the man subsequently returned to the peak a few days later after having forgotten their phone at the summit. Humiliatingly, he had to be rescued again. BBC reports that a 27-year-old Chinese university student (whom authorities have mercifully declined to name) was initially rescued last Tuesday near the summi
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Mountain stats Elevation 3067m When to climb June - November Course options Two course options from the town of Otaki, or from the Ontake Ropeway, both which will take you about 5 hours to complete. 🚌 Public transport access Accessible via train and bus from Tokyo, but with the timings it's not too feasible as a day trip. 🚗 Car access A 4.5h drive from Tokyo. There is a small car park at Tanohara, and a much larger one at ropeway. Mt Ontake (御嶽山, ontake-san) is one of Japan’s Hundred Famous M
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Most video games that involve mountains are about the climb: trudging through some momentous challenge and emerging a valorous hero. Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders, on the other hand, is all about the drop. This is a downhill skiing game that starts you at the summit and asks you to get to the base in one piece, as quickly as you can. The way down is filled with shortcuts and interweaving routes you can take, but there are no directional markers to guide you. Nor is there any music to pump you up
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During the winter, storms layer the Rocky Mountains with snow that supplies the Western United States’ communities with water during the summer. But snow isn’t the only thing that storms deposit on those mountains. A team of researchers has revealed that the winter storms that cover the Rocky Mountains with snow also carry contaminants from mines. Their work, detailed in a study published March 26 in the journal Environmental Pollution, sheds light on the ecological consequences of mining activ
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Spectre Divide, a Valorant-like free-to-play shooter where you control two bodies, is shutting down just months after its September launch. “We were optimistic about the first week,” developer Mountaintop Studios says in a post. “We’ve had ~400,000 players play, with a peak concurrent player count of ~10,000 across all platforms. But as time has gone on, we haven’t seen enoug
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