Everest 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.
Door to door from their homes in England, the entire trip will have taken just under seven days.
Al Carns, Garth Miller, Kevin Godlington and Anthony 'Staz' Stazicker, Special Forces veterans who left London on the afternoon of May 16, reached the 29,032-foot summit Wednesday morning (Nepal time) along with five sherpas and a cameraman, cutting short the usual climbing time from weeks to days after acclimatizing for months at home by sleeping in hypoxic tents. They also received an unusual treatment of xenon gas, doing the climb under the direction of Lukas Furtenbach, who has been using different methods over the years to shorten the time spent on Everest.

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