Vegan woman dies of altitude sickness on Mount Everest trying to prove "vegans can do anything"
Weeks before her death Dr Strydom told how she and her husband wanted to dispel the belief that vegans were 'weak' or 'malnourished' by taking on the climb.
'It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak.
Maria Strydom died on Saturday afternoon after having to turn back from the final leg of the expedition because she felt unwell.
She returned to Camp 4, the last camp before the mountain's summit, on Friday where she spent the night but died from lack of oxygen the following day.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602846/Pictured-Melbourne-university-lecturer-34-died-altitude-sickness-Mount-Everest-taking-climb-husband-prove-vegans-anything.html
Sad. But I'm not sure she should have attempted this climb.
I guess it's ironic in the sense that she became one of the anecdotes that she was hoping to combat.
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and creative no doubt.
comes to altitude sickness.
Is what the person you dispute said, verbatim. I wonder how that is insisting that her diet absolutely had nothing to do with her death.
I care about the animals.
As the old Yiddish vegetarian Isaac Bashevis Singer once said, I don't do it for my health, I do it for the health of the chickens.
The B12 pills are here available to us. Fruits, vegetables and grains and nuts are available to us. (oh yeah and some of us including me eat french fries and vegan mayo sugary chocolaty foods and unhealthy stuff like that which is plant based, too. ) We have the option to do less harm by not eating meat. It's a choice that I and many others have made. Factory farms are everywhere and the cruelty is insane.
Oh and I ask you is the genetically modified chicken and turkey that is so pumped up with it's size it can barely move natural? I'll take the B12 pills thank you. 
Sounds like you have an unhealthy fixation about what other people choose to eat. I could care less what they eat unless they try to force me to eat it. I'm a meat and potato person myself. I Hate most veggies & seafood.
Authoritarians who try to tell other people what to do turn me off and when they try to push their nonsense using a story that has nothing to do with what the woman ate is very revealing.
And I am a firm believer that ridicule for ridiculous concepts is both fun and appropriate. Now I am sad that this woman died. But this was her choice, and she did it because of her fucking menu choice!!!!!
Somehow I'd missed them, I went looking to see if they were as dickish as you are in GD. They were, and now you're blocked.
I am not against vegetarianism, vegans, or animal rights. I am against their rather crazy health claims, none of which are supported by the science, that is somehow more healthy. It isn't. It just isn't.
The most healthy diet is a diverse one, with meat or not, whether one eats dairy or not, or eggs or not. Being vegan or vegetarian does not give anybody any special privilege to health claims since it is all basically calories and protein and nutrients which come from any number of sources.
One chooses. That is the issue here. Vegans ban from their group because they cannot tolerate diet choice. If one eats meat... Gone. Well, I also eat eggs!!! Clutch your pearls.
I don't recommend you attempt to prove that your diet is better by trying to climb Everest, and especially not K2, which was the entire point of this thread.
Apparently some of you are suffering from irony deficiency disorder. And I don't for a minute think that it is a diet insufficiency.
Don't take it personally. I literally don't care what you eat. Just leave my diet to my choice. And if people did not climb deadly mountains merely to promote their chosen diets, the world would be a better place.
Theirs is a food-based religion. They not only don't want to eat meat, they want nobody else to eat meat, or dairy, or eggs, etc.
Most of them are reasonable. My cousin is one of those. His whole family is vegan. And he never says a word about it. And if you go to eat at his house, the food is fairly awesome.
But then there are those who seem to have to proselytize their diet choices. Well, screw them.
Eat what you want. Just shut up about it. Don't make it like a religion. That just makes it suck.
My best to you.
Just keep your diet to yourself.
Again, it's the behavior. They not only don't eat meat, they want nobody else to eat meat either.
That is a rather big problem. For instance, what does one do with all the cows? They cannot live in the wild because they are domesticated. There's all that animal husbandry over thousands of years which gave rise to today's domesticated cows.
Now one can make ethical arguments about not eating meat, and that is part of why I eat a lot less of it at my age. I suggest that you look up Temple Grandin, a rather awesome person who is an academic at the height of such ethical questions.
But I am not the vegan's enemy here, except maybe to point out when one climbs Mount Everest in advocacy for a vegan diet, that might not be a very good idea.
Your best argument is ethical treatment of animals. Stick with that. It's the one that convinces. Ditch the health claims -- no educated person thinks vegans aren't healthy (I reserve that ridicule to the fruitarians and breathairians) -- especially if one is using it to justify climbing one of the 14 8,000 meter summits, all fucking dangerous, all in the Himalayas.
My whole point here is that you are not at all helping your case with that argument.
And yes, my best to you.
Go hang out in Creative Speculation for a bit 
Oh, wait.
Was she blonde? If so then the headline should have read "Blonde Dies on Mt. Everest".
Or maybe she was a redhead.
Oh, I know. She was a Liberal:" "Liberal Dies on Mt. Everest". Ah, that's so typical of those silly Liberals.
you have too. Good grief. Let's use some common sense people.
Oh, sorry - wrong religious war.
Note to all: the Trash Thread button is your friend.
... make decisions as to how we are going to live our lives. When one does that, they have to live (or die) with the consequences. It's so sad. She looked like such a vibrant happy & healthy person in the pictures. And she was, until her body ran out of oxygen. Why didn't she have an oxygen tank with a canula in her nose? I would think that O2 would be required on those mountain climbs.
but the underlying problem is that so many people are climbing that mountain.
Here are some photos:
A line of climbers on the Lhotse face of Mt. Everest. I believe this was taken last year.
Another picture of climbers near the summit
And then there's the trash left behind
More trash
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Not to mention all the used oxygen tanks
I won't post pictures of the many bodies that have been left on the mountain. But they're readily found on line.
Correlation is not causation. 
