"This was, quite simply, a fishing expedition, equivalent to a tabloid poking through a celebrity's garbage.
A simple night out on the town still carries dangers that the equivalent non-trans expedition would not.
Middle managers, the business equivalent of an expedition member, generally have the most information about the decisions that need to be made.
Chronic hypobaric hypoxia (lack of oxygen): where the expedition will encounter equivalent altitudes up around 3,800m due to the extreme cold temperatures and distance from the Equator which further decreases atmospheric pressure.
The station's crews were exposed to an absorbed dose of about 5.2 cGy over the course of a 115-day expedition, producing an equivalent dose of 14.75 cSv, or 1133 µSv per day.
Shackleton then worked hard to persuade others of his wealthy friends and acquaintances to contribute, including Sir Phillip Lee Brocklehurst, who subscribed £2,000 (2011 equivalent £157,000) to secure a place on the expedition; author Campbell Mackellar; and Guinness baron Lord Iveagh, whose contribution was secured less than two weeks before the departure of the expedition ship Nimrod.
The total cost of the expedition was estimated at £90,000 (2009 equivalent about £7.25 million), of which £45,000 was offered by the British Government provided that the two Societies could raise a matching sum.
Their expedition puts them in contact with the equivalent of Nazi officers, and when they challenge Zero's papers, Gustave, with unflagging loyalty, mounts, in effect, a one-man resistance operation.
The explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes called Hooper's attempt remarkable, adding: "The expedition has the potential of becoming the modern-day equivalent of Sir Edmund Hillary's conquest of Everest".
World Expeditions offers an off-the-peg 11-day equivalent for newbie trekkers from £990, which takes in the pretty villages of Landruk and Ghandruk.
Delahaye's annual salary on the expedition, paid by the navy, was 1000 livres (24 livres were equivalent to the gold coin, the Louis d'or), and he was reimbursed 1,236 livres for equipment.
