Of course, in reverse order:

5. Eat! Man, you gotta eat. Don’t skip meals, don;t even think about it! Since I can’get up for breakfast, I started going to Midrats (Midnight Rations) to get a third meal during my day. You burn so much calories here! It is not only doing manual labor with all the clothes on, it is more the fact that even with that special gear you body is still working hard to generate body heat. I read somewhere that an average person needs around 5000 kcal when he is living at the Pole. Now, I am not so sure about that number, but I can imagine a 1000 kcal more than at home. That is a lot!

4. Drink! Being such a dry and high place, the need for water is immense. I am trying hard to maintain 4l a day, which might be still a bit too less. The moisten my hands, I used more of my hand creme than in the past two years! And they are still like sand paper. My nose is just a big wound, though I am glad that the nose bleeds stopped. Man, that was a real mess!

3. Drink beer! Beer keeps your spirit up and makes you sleepy. That is good in an environment, where even in my dark Jamesway hole my body knows, that there is the sun shininh out there. Always.

2. Drink even more water! Beer (as coffee) dehydrates the body immensely! I had one beer (sic!) the other night and had to go three times to the loo! Awful!

And finally number one:
1. Drink hard stuff! Keeps you happy, too, but doesn’t dehydrate as much as beer! 😉