Vegan woman dies of altitude sickness on Mount Everest trying to prove "vegans can do anything"

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122. I rarely post in the vegan group.

But food-based religion disgusts me.

Eat what you choose! But don't make a Mt. Everest summit attempt an exemplar of how healthy and wonderful your food choices are. Whatever you do, do not pin your success on such a venture to such a shallow thing as "I eat only vegetables."

That would be a stupid thing to do, especially since 230+ people have died trying what you are about to attempt.

It is not that she died of altitude sickness -- why in the fuck didn't you take oxygen? -- it's that her and her husband hitched their "seven summits" wagon to their vegan diet.

Well, maybe they ought to have tried the "seven second summits". It would have been a bit easier, however the Asian second summit is K2, which is a more deadly summit than Everest. The "Seven Third Summits" isn't much better. It includes Kangchenjunga, a summit with a rather extraordinary death rate.

But, by all means, assign your survival -- so far -- to the fact that you eat only vegetables. That is until you get to one of the 14 8,000 meter peaks (all in the Himilayas) where being either a vegan or an omnivore isn't going to help you.

I would bet they tried it without oxygen. Because... you know, vegan!