Post #1370302
2026-02-08 08:42 UTC
There is no way they were the first vegans in 2016. There have been 100+ ascents per year for decades, should have been around 6000 in total as of 2016.
Considering the mountain is in a part of the world where significant parts of the population are de-facto vegans without identifying as such, I highly doubt that no one among the 6k people before them was living on a plant based diet
Replies (4)
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@Gebruikersnaam@lemmy.ml 2026-02-08 09:15
Yeah and like half of the climbers I know are vegan or at least vegetarian. There is a huge overlap in those groups.
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@plyth@feddit.org 2026-02-08 19:49
> There is no way they were the first vegans in 2016. There have been 100+ ascents per year After her death a vegan among them would have spoken out. Could be that they all tried Yak butter and can't claim the title anymore.
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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-02-08 14:04
Half of India is vegan
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-02-08 12:20
They all died.