SHE SHOULD HAVE EATEN SOME BACON

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Maria Strydom dies on Mount Everest, tackled trek ‘to prove that vegans can do anything’

In this Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, file photo, international trekkers pass through a glacier at the Mount Everest base camp, Nepal. An Indian climber has died while being helped down Mount Everest, just hours after a Dutch and an Australian climber died near the peak. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa, File)

– The Washington Times – Monday, May 23, 2016

An Australian woman who intended to prove that “vegans can do anything and more” died Friday while attempting to scale Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth.

Maria Strydom, a 34-year-old Monash Business School finance lecturer, made it roughly 400 meters shy of the summit when she began suffering from altitude sickness and died while attempting to descend.

“She could not resist any more her weakness, and she stopped breathing right there,” said Furtengi Sherpa, the operational manager of Seven Summit Treks.

Strydom previously made it to the top of some of the tallest mountains in the world, including Denali and Kilimanjaro, and she was determined to scale the seven highest summits on Earth, of which Everest ranks first.

In an interview published on March 2 on the Monash Business School website, Strydom said that she and her husband, who both are accomplished climbers who consume neither meat nor dairy, together set their sights on Everest after doubts were raised by skeptics due to possible iron and protein deficiencies caused by their diets.

“It seems that people have this warped idea of vegans being malnourished and weak,” she told the website. “By climbing the seven summits, we want to prove that vegans can do anything and more.”

Her husband, Robert Gropel, also began suffering from high-altitude pulmonary edema while climbing Everest, but he was evacuated by helicopter and is expected to survive.

“Physically he’s OK, we think,” his father, Heinz Gropel, told the Australian. “Mentally, he is a mess. He’s just lost his wife. These guys were not amateurs. They were experienced climbers.”

“She was not a risk taker,” Strydom’s friend, Carly Moulang, told the Sydney Morning Herald. “She was not willing to take unnecessary, risks and she was strongly of the belief that she would return safe, even if it meant that she didn’t summit. In the case that she did not reach the summit, she was prepared to return to Everest for another attempt.”

In addition to Strydom, two other mountain climbers died on Everest last week, including an Indian man and a Dutch man, who was in the same group as Strydom and her husband, before he succumbed to altitude sickness during his descent, The Associated Press reported on Monday.

 

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YODA_bite me (you know who)
YODA_bite me (you know who)

“She was not a risk taker,”

HA, HA, HA, HA, HA,HA

IndenturedServant

Ironic for sure!

They don’t call it the “death zone” for nothing.

Anonymous
Anonymous

There are some mountains that are only for the best of the best.

People who set out to prove something unrelated to just climbing the mountain are usually not among them.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

Vegans are idiots. Humans evolved to eat just about anything, including meat and dairy. To totally exclude them from your diet is simply stupid. By the way, Hitler was a vegan, if that means anything.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Southern Sage,

Hitler wasn’t actually a vegetarian, he is said to have loved Bavarian sausage among other meats, he was just portrayed that way by his propagandists to give him an inspiring ascetic image to help convince the masses of his sole dedication to the Aryan cause.

rhs jr

Eat more Opossum.

Francis Marion
diogenes
diogenes

Loved it when researchers, who were following chimpanzees, got footage of them hunting other monkeys and then eating them.

TPC
TPC

Deer have been found eating baby birds and mice. There’s footage of baboons hunting and killing baby gazelle (and eating them alive.)

I’ve seen a cow slurp up a field mouse, a sow turn around and gorge herself on her litter, and a cat that thought it was fun to pull the wings off of all the chicks in the coop.

Nature is not cruel or evil, it simply is.

MuckAbout

TPC notched it. The lady (vegan or not) did bad planning, underestimated her stamina and fucked up. She is not the first to die climbing Everest and won’t be the last.

Too bad to loose her brain though..

MA

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

Never met a vegan that was not at least in part mentally ill (except for people from India). Lack of B vitamins causes mental problems and other related health problems.

Stupid is as stupid does———— Forest Gump

anon
anon

Ron Paul is a vegan

harry p.

Veganism+hubris kills another stupid person. Therfore the human population has been improved as a whole by her ommission.

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