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When you read about troops out in winter and you see the gear they had (lucky if they had blankets) you wonder how they did not just freeze to death. I guess a fair few did.

Nothing to do with Antarctica. Antarctica is dry. When in the South Island bush you generally come home dripping wet as a matter of routine. No raincoat will stop that. You take the soaking wet...

I worked with two guys who took standard old Kiwi tramping gear to the dry valleys in Antractica several years in a row. Mangy thin synthetic fairy down sleeping bags, bush shirts and Olympus tents....