Xenon fuel can accelerate Everest trek. Fear that it may possibly additionally go away climbers dangerously

When Canadian Chris Dare attempted to climb Mount Everest in 2019, one of the challenges he faced was a serious congestion problem.

So many people were making efforts that the final push on the top of the world’s highest mountain was doubled as expected, which they said that the climb made the climb more dangerous. Eleven people killed On the mountain during the climbing season of that year.

But after a team of British climbers, who breathed Zenon Gas, made headlines to reach the summit in five days, BC residents are worried that the issue can be made quite worse.

Dare told CBC News that making the mountain easier at the summit, possibly attracting more climbers, “already serious crowds, increasing the problem.”

This potential problem is one of the many issues being raised around the use of gas by mountaineers of the mountain.

5 days to climb Everest

According to the website of Mayo Clinic, the atmosphere of the Zenon Earth has a very small amount of colorless and odorless gas and is known for some anesthetic properties and medical uses, such as helping to diagnose lung problems.

Mountain Guide Lucas Furtainbach said last week that he and a team of British climbers breathed the Axon Gas before leaving for a campaign, where they climbed the 8,848 meters of Everest’s 8,848 meters in less than five days of going to London.

The climbers spent months preparation, Furtainback told the Associated Press when he returned to Kathmandu. He said that he used to sleep in hypoxic tents that follow up high-height conditions, undergoing an Axon gas treatment at an clinic in Germany two weeks before leaving for Nepal and used supplementary oxygen during their climb.

Mountaineers usually spend weeks in the base camp to accommodate their body at high altitude. To prepare their body for low air pressure available on top of Everest and lower levels of oxygen, they practice in the lower camps of the mountain before starting their final attempt to reach the summit.

“Climatization is a process in which the body is suitable for a high height environment and makes you physical changes to allow you to function in a hypobary, hypoxic environment,” Dr. Rob Kaiserle said, a British doctor who works in Quebec and has increased Mount Everest eight times.

Dare says they believe that more study is required on the use of Xinon to help climbers.

“It seems very, very risky just in this beginning, in the beginning,” he said. “It’s really difficult for me to think … Using a new type of technique. What type of security protocol contains it?”

He is also concerned with the fact that if climbers come to rely more on Xinan gas, they will give up the training required to make such climbers and find out too late that their pre-e-e-e-edema efforts did not work.

As a result, the bodies of climbers may not be ready to deal with the lack of oxygen at high altitude, which means they can develop altitude disease and end with fluid formation and brain inflammation (cerebral edema) in the lungs (pulmonary edema).

“You are not taking training for two months, for two months, in the traditional way of staying on the mountain for a month in a natural environment.”

‘Great psychological risk’

Kaiserle says that the advantage of a long -term campaign is that it allows climbers to acclimate over time. This means that they become strong and more wise on the road-wise and mountain, “he said.

In 2015, he survived the avalanche on Mount Everest, which began with an earthquake in Nepal. He says that climbing Everest is about 90 percent psychological and 10 percent physical.

“You start pouring into those who come out of the cold turkey only from their normal environment, I think it will put them at risk of getting any kind of meltdown and not to have skills to bring down themselves into a kind of so -called disastrous position,” Caesarley said, seeing that it can put a lot of people in danger.

He also questions the science around using exonnous gas to help climbers, given that there is some evidence that it can increase erythropoitin (EPO), hormones that stimulate the production of red blood cells, which in turn increases blood capacity to carry oxygen in the body. And this can probably give rise to increased athletic capacity that will allow people to score a mountain at a faster rate.

But he says that so far, there is only real evidence that gas performance is increasing.

(In 2014, World Anti-Doping Agency Zenn gas added to its list of banned substances It was revealed after claims that it can be used to help promote performance by athletes.)

The comments of climbers should not be rejected

Dr. Peter Hacket, a high -height researcher at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who has also increased Mount Everest, says that Furtainback’s comments should not be rejected.

Hakt said, “I trust the comments of experienced and skilled climbers. They know their body. They know how they react to high altitude.” “If they think there was a difference with Xinn, I think it’s on science to find out if it is really true.”

But he says that it is also important to emphasize that the crew of Furtainback slept in a hypoxic tent for three months before he went to the mountain and also used oxygen on the mountain, two things that are already known to make a big difference.

He said that Zeenen was responsible for his own quick climb, “wrong information”.

Hacket said that Ukrainian climber Andrew Ushakov Recently claim to climb Everest at the summit from sea level Four days in a record With complementary oxygen and pre-concentration in a hypoxic tent, but without the use of zenon.

“He It was better than these other people, “Hacket said.

He says that the idea is that zenon gas can be useful in high height as it can increase red blood cells and has not been shown in the study to protect vital organs from low levels of oxygen.

“There is no science to say that it works at high altitude for climbers, and there is no science to say it is not.”

Hackett says that it is worth researching the effects of Zenn, but not because it can be a way of rapid scale to mountains for climbers.

“If it protects the body from low oxygen levels, it is going to be a big place in medical practice.”