Let me get this straight, this guy turns up at a place, not wanted and uninvited and expects to be bailed out.
And a couple of you are using this as an opportunity to have a go at old Saint Nick cause he and no doubt a whole lot of other rotorheads have a different opinion.
No doubt he is being treated well down there and they instinctively want to help but I personally admire the base commanders decision, what precedent will it set, were are lines drawn, who will be the next fool who wants to get into the Guinness book of records for crossing the Antarctic with the least amount of fuel onboard.
Antarctic is not like other places on this planet, we dont belong there, you get in any type of trouble down there dont expect to live, and more importantly don't expect other people to go out of there way to save your sorry ass, you chose to go down, your mess, you deal with it.