Things no one tells you before an Antarctic expedition (2015)
> A normal man burns about 2,500 calories in a day. We burn between 7,000 to 9,000.<p>This kind of thing is fascinating to me. It reminds me of the guy [1] who took 64,000 extra calories of olive oil along on his tiny-yacht trip across the Atlantic, because it's so dense in calories. Or the fact that on the day a climber summits Everest, they'll burn around 20,000 calories. That's almost 40 McDonald's Big Macs worth of energy.<p>1. <a href="http://www.yachtingworld.com/extraordinary-boats/undaunted-the-42-inch-yacht-still-hoping-to-become-the-smallest-boat-ever-to-cross-the-atlantic-107559" rel="nofollow">http://www.yachtingworld.com/extraordinary-boats/undaunted-t...</a>