Dr Maria Strydom on a recent climb of Denali in Alaska, the highest peak in North America Credit: Monash Business school
Posted on 05/22/2016 8:00:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin
"It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak," Dr Strydom said in March.
"We want to prove that vegans can do anything and more."
Epic fail!
To die doing what you love is not the worst way to go...
LOL, that vegan diet apparently did not help.
Maria Strydom and her husband Robert Gropel. Photo: Facebook
How sad. I hope they didn’t leave young children behind.
Vegans are mortal too.
Try as I might, I’ve never been able to see the attraction of this sort of thing.
my guess is that it contributed to what ever complications she was having....climbing Everest is extremely taxing and proper eating while making the climb is important...at that altitude and temperature having fats and protein are important.
Yeah, but do they believe that?
Hopefully they won the darwin awards... but they probably left 3 biological and 7 adopted kids with their nannies.
All they have to do is breathe their oxygen tank as the Sherpas drag their living corpses up the mountain (and back down, if they’re lucky).
The vegan angle is stupid and irrelevant. Hundreds have died on Everest meat eaters and vegans alike. The mountain is ruthless and not discerning. The reasons why many die is sudden changes I weather compounded by very poor decisions made above 8000 meters. Most die on the way down from the summit. Getting to the summit is only half the trip. We won’t know what happens until we get the report of the timeline of the summit attempt.
There’s nothing in the linked article to indicate they had children. Only that her “netball” club will miss her. Journalism is weird.
Everest has become the rich yuppie version of “Hold my beer and watch this....”
Everest is littered with dead bodies that have never been recovered.
It’s not my idea of a good time. Guess I’m just a bore.
They’ll never get her down.. She will stay up there forever. Or they actually develop a high altitude helicopter.
"It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak," Dr Strydom said in March.
"We want to prove that vegans can do anything and more."
Humans evolved as omnivores.
Many people, I'm certain, have noticed the pale quality of vegetarians/vegans. That paleness indicates suboptimal health. I'm not surprised that they could not handle the low oxygen and pressure present at high altitudes. Carrying extra oxygen bottles only helps a little--at high altitudes, the blood simply cannot carry enough oxygen, even when breathing a pure oxygen atmosphere. That is why airplanes are pressurized to simulate lower altitudes.
I would hypothesize that vegans have a lower carrying capacity for oxygen, which becomes critical at altitudes lower than what people who eat normal diets can tolerate. It would be an interesting physiological study to carry out.
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