Death on Everest a Blow for Vegans

[IronMac]

Sad sad sad...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...thing.html

[IronMac]

There's something I find a bit puzzling...in another article it lists the mountains that she's climbed such as Denali, Aconcagua, Ararat, and Kilimanjaro. I thought, wait a minute, those aren't particularly high or difficult mountains and so I looked up their respective heights. It turns out that Everest is about 7000 feet higher than the other closest mountain she's ever climbed which is Aconcagua.

Everest 29,029 vs. Aconcagua 22,841.

[GuyGene]

It is sad. I wonder what is the death rate for climbing, attempting to climb Everest? What percentage die? Way too dangerous I think.

[Ombligo]

The success rate for those attempting Mt. Everest is 29% (adventurestats.com)
The overall death rate on Mt. Everest is 6.5% (climbing.about.com)
But once you go above 6000m, it doubles to 12.6% (http://www.besthealthdegrees.com/health-risks/)

She was at 8000m

Many will complain that it isn't worth the risk. She was an adult and made an informed decision. I go through similar things, including higher life insurance premiums due to cavediving (even though that activity is excluded from coverage). I enjoy it, it is a choice I made.

[space-time]

I don't think this has much to do with Vegans. Non vegans died as well.

[$tevie]

Her vegan husband lived, while meanwhile a non-vegan died on the same day. So the vegan connection is just newspaper headline baloney.

Over 250 people have died trying to climb Everest, the odds are pretty slim that they were all vegans.

[hal]

Don't read the tabloid article on dailymail - here's a real news article about story: http://www.smh.com.au/national/mount-eve...p0t3p.html

This is not a story about veganism.

[fauch]

What is sad is that people so often risk their lives and often DIE doing pointless things. Think of all the POSITIVE change this woman could have effected in the world had she put her time and energy into something more productive...

Yes it's cool that you climbed a really big mountain, but is it worth dying over? If so, that is even sadder....

[$tevie]

I used to feel that way but I've decided that if someone loves to do dangerous things and it makes them happy then why not? Because life is too short to deny yourself pleasure, even if to me that pleasure is total nonsense.

[DeusxMac]

$tevie wrote:
I used to feel that way but I've decided that if someone loves to do dangerous things and it makes them happy then why not? Because life is too short to deny yourself pleasure, even if to me that pleasure is total nonsense.

Unless that "dangerous thing" requires nonparticipants to clean up after the thrill-seeker's "total nonsense" (i.e. rescue, recover bodies, support dependents left behind, etc.)