Woman climbs Mount Everest to prove vegans aren't weak

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A woman who died of altitude sickness while climbing Mount Everest took on the challenge to prove that 'vegans can do anything'.

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.

The 34-year-old South African national taught at Monash University in Melbourne and was an experienced climber.

Her husband Robert Gropel is injured but, according to trip organisers, '100 per cent safe'.

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.

'By climbing the seven summits we want to prove that vegans can do anything and more,' she said in an interview with the university where she worked

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602846/Pictured-Melbourne-university-lecturer-34-died-altitude-sickness-Mount-Everest-taking-climb-husband-prove-vegans-anything.html

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Have some bacon and don't die. Simple.
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I think she died from lack of oxygen, not meat. Just sayin'

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Lectuer [sic] with the Department of Banking and Finance, such a tragic loss to the world.

Her family are all rageface with the expidition company because... search me. Did they think this was some sort of Thomas Cook package deal? Quick trip up the top, then down the water slide?
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Must admit I did laugh whilst reading that,
Probably bad of me,

She should have stuck to eating tofu and left the climbing to the meat eaters
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"She was not a risk taker"

Seriously? People genuinely think climbing high altitude mountains in the "death zone" isn't risky?
It doesn't take a genius to work out that if the smallest thing goes wrong, your trip goes from adventure of a lifetime to survival with narrow odds.

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I do wonder how her blood haemaglobin levels were.

What with the best source of dietary iron being red meat. I bet there isn't a great pumpkin seed supply in the Himalayas.
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Why anyone would risk this ...

https://resources2.news.com.au/images/2012/03/21/1226306/136042-120321-hall.jpg

... or worse just to climb a friggin' mountain is beyond me.
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At least she proved that vegans can die from altitude sickness like anyone else, so well done that woman, I suppose.
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