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Woman Trying to Prove 'Vegans Can Do Anything' Dies on Mount Everest
Time ^ | May 23, 2016 | Melissa Chan

Posted on 05/23/2016 2:07:30 PM PDT by Trump20162020

An Australian woman who set out to climb Mount Everest to prove that “vegans can do anything” died Saturday after developing altitude sickness.

Maria Strydom, 34, had reached the final camp from the summit before she and her husband, Robert Gropel, both began suffering from high-altitude pulmonary edema, which caused fluid to build up in Strydom’s brain, the Washington Post reports.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: everest; mariastrydom; mounteverest; strydom; vegan
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To: Trump20162020

***which caused fluid to build up in Strydom’s brain***

When I first read this I thought it said “Styrofoam’s brain!”


41 posted on 05/23/2016 2:35:54 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: trisham

People doing things that can cause them to die for lack of oxygen is crazy.


42 posted on 05/23/2016 2:36:13 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: MNDude

There are hundreds on bodies all over the place on Everest. You can see photos people have taken of many on any internet search.


43 posted on 05/23/2016 2:41:18 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Carry me back

I would never do it.


44 posted on 05/23/2016 2:42:48 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: MNDude

If you haven’t eaten yet, Google Bodies on Everest. Yikes.


45 posted on 05/23/2016 2:43:13 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who dies)
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To: PAR35

It also did because vegans have less strength and energy than omnivores.

In the documentary Fat Head a doctor talks about how he was a vegetarian for,9 years and a strict one for 3 years, when he was a strength coach, and he said it was the time in his life when he felt the weakest. Also got really depressed being off fats and protein.


46 posted on 05/23/2016 2:44:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Carry me back

Usually supplemental oxygen is carried up by climbers too. Wonder if they went through all of it.


47 posted on 05/23/2016 2:45:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Trump20162020

Wow, vegans CAN do anything! Even die on Mt.Everest!


48 posted on 05/23/2016 2:45:47 PM PDT by Yaelle (Tinkerbelle glittering up the runway for Trump Force One!)
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To: Trump20162020
Mount Everest. Forbidding, aloof, terrifying. The mountain with the biggest tits in the world.

START AGAIN!!!!


49 posted on 05/23/2016 2:46:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: MNDude

Well, they don’t rot, and it’s a pain to bring them down, so yeah they probably do make good landmarks.


50 posted on 05/23/2016 2:46:17 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Trump20162020

Lettuce pray.


51 posted on 05/23/2016 2:46:27 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Calling Obama a POS is a major insult to S.)
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To: fwdude

“Humans can’t continue to exist without certain amino acids that can ONLY be found in animal products.”

All the amino acids can be obtained from plants, but you need to eat the proper variety (nuts, beans, soy, etc). The main advantage of meat when it comes to amino acids is that any kind of meat contains all the essential amino acids in one place.


52 posted on 05/23/2016 2:49:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: r_barton
Vegan becomes worm food.

It's unlikely worms could live at that altitude.

53 posted on 05/23/2016 2:52:36 PM PDT by keat
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To: MNDude

Yep. Just passing one of those bodies on your way up would cause me to turn back around. I don’t understand the thrill of mountain climbing.


54 posted on 05/23/2016 2:52:55 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (MAGA! Make America Great Again)
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To: Trump20162020


55 posted on 05/23/2016 2:58:13 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Trump20162020

Mission accomplished. She proved vegans can die on Everest.


56 posted on 05/23/2016 3:00:01 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Trump20162020

I half hoped it was my sister in law.


57 posted on 05/23/2016 3:09:29 PM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Trump20162020

What a pathetic waste of Gods gift of life! And before anyone tries pointing out that she died doing what she loved to do, let me point out that she died because she was unable to breathe.


58 posted on 05/23/2016 3:10:01 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Trump20162020
This is the Vegans version of "Hold mah beer and watch this"


59 posted on 05/23/2016 3:10:27 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: Still Thinking

LOL


60 posted on 05/23/2016 3:11:31 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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