The first vegan to climb Mt. Everest – Kuntal Joisher Click here for the Original Article on Vegan First Kuntal Joisher had pretty much broken the Internet when news about his triumphant climb on Mount Everest spread like wildfire. The world has known of many mountain climbers summiting the...
Amy McCready |@veganconnections | Click here for the Original Article on Vegan Connections Formerly 110kg, Kuntal Joisher, a Software Engineer from Mumbai, may have seemed like an unlikely fit for the title of First Vegan to Climb Everest. Yet, as he recounts his story, demonstrating his sheer...
Click here for the Original Article on The Vegan Society I went vegan 14 years ago in late 2002. It has been an awesome journey, and one which has changed my entire life. I was raised vegetarian, but this was for religious reasons rather than choice. When I...
By Allyson Escobar | Click here for the Original Article on Los Angeles Times When Kuntal Joisher was in the eighth grade living in Mumbai, India, he wrote his first piece of software code. Twenty-three years later, Joisher is not only a computer software engineer, but a self-described “adventure...
By Siddhi Nayak | Click here for the Original Article on Outlook Business “When I first told him about my decision to climb the Everest, my boss sarcastically said, ‘You can very well climb the moon as well’,” recollects Kuntal Joisher, India’s only vegan mountaineer, with a smile....
By SHAIL DESAI | Click here for the Original Article on MensXP Life in the Death Zone (over 8000 metres on the high mountains) is full of uncertainties; then to be stranded there for an hour, on a little ledge that overlooked a drop over 2000 metres is...
Der Lebensweg von Kuntal Joisher erinnert an einen Hollywoodfilm. Vielleicht gerade deshalb, weil er selbst vor wenigen Jahren nicht damit gerechnet hätte, der erste Veganer auf dem Mount Everest zu sein. Das Leben des Gujarati aus Kharagpur, einer kleinen Stadt in Westbengalen, war bis 2009 so normal und...
Click here for the Original Article Can diet be an indicator of success on Everest? This past year, the tragic death and subsequent focus on Maria (Marissa) Strydom’s desire to ‘prove vegans can do anything” created a tremendous amount of headlines around diet for climbers and in many cases lead to shameful ridicule...
By: Becky Striepe | Click here for the Original article on Care2 You’ve probably heard by now that a vegan hiker died while trying to climb Mt. Everest. What you maybe haven’t heard about is the vegan hiker who successfully reached the summit two days before. Mountain climber and long-time vegan Kuntal Joisher...
By Anna Starostinetskaya | Click here for the Original Post on Veg News Kuntal Joisher successfully climbs one of the world’s most challenging mountains. Last month, Mumbai-born Kuntal Joisher became the first known vegan to summit Mount Everest. The 36-year old reached the top after a 45-day expedition, during...
Kuntal A. Joisher is the first Indian Vegan mountaineer, hailing from Mumbai, India. His expeditions to some of the world’s most dangerous mountains are fiercely driven by a profound personal mission as a Vegan champion, Dementia awareness advocate and a Humanitarian.