Originally Posted by vane171

Last week, two mountain climbers got stranded on Baruntse at ~7000 meters above sea level shortly after starting descent and due to bad weather, had to camp for some five days with very little food. They were losing 1Kg, ~2 lbs a day. And that was just laying about in a tiny tent without any exercise beyond getting out several times a day to move snow off the tent.

Somebody should start organizing slimming tours up there.

It very much supports that about the weight gain being due to intake