Related: "Ten things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition" (2015) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/11315994/Ten-things-no-one-tells-you-before-

Related: "Ten things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition" (2015) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/11315994/Ten-things-no-one-tells-you-before-an-Antarctic-expedition.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/11315994/Ten-things-n... 1. You're going to have to eat a lot of raw butter. When you are skiing across Antarctica and putting in 12-14 hour days of pulling a sled in minus 40C, you have to keep your calorie count up. A normal man burns about 2,500 calories in a day. We burn between 7,000 to 9,000. That means supplementing your dehydrated food with slabs of butter. In the first few days of the expedition, it tastes revolting, but then your body just craves the fat content and you eat the butter like blocks of cheese.