Kinner shrugs. "Antarctica has some unusual properties that we wanted to study, I guess. I was just the cook. No one told me much of anything. What kinds of animals were there besides polar bears?"

It's a good thing there were no polar bears in Antarctica, since Kinner knows they're man-eaters. The leopard seals were the only animals he was really frightened of and they didn't venture inland. Inland, there were other things to worry about, mostly the temperature and visibility issues.