Reading about Amundsen's expedition, I've found out that the daily
rations were:
Men:
* Biscuits (40 biscuits): 380 g (13.4 ounces)
* Men's pemmican: 350 g (12.34 ounces)
* Chocolate: 40 g (1.4 ounces)
* Milk powder: 60 g (2.1 ounces)
Dogs:
* Dogs' pemmican: 500 g (1.1 pounds)
They were on this diet for 99 days, while driving sledges through 1860
miles.
I wonder, how adecuate was this diet? Approximately, how many calories
did they ingest daily? I cannont find info on the kind of biscuits and
pemmican they ate, but I think that there are ways of guesstimate,
aren't they?
Also, the men did not get scurvy; where was the C vitamin, maybe in the
pemmican?
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Javi