I’ve always thought that Antarctica will be the most physically difficult expedition of all our 7 10DL expeditions. Until now I never had a structured way of thinking about how to measure “difficulty”. From a energy expenditure perspective, Antarctica will be the hardest. Here’s how I performed my calculations. 
1. The first step is to breakdown [...]

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It’s weird, but over the last several weeks I’ve been contacted by a number of old Navy buddies. At the same time, but independently, I’ve had a number of non-service members ask me questions about what I used to do.
I formerly served for Navy EOD. EOD stands for Explosive Ordinance Disposal. Bomb disposal [...]