The aircraft take the people and their gear to their chosen start site. The sledge party will receive aircraft visits later on to resupply them but for the time being that is it. Once the aircraft has left them the sledge party then either sets up camp or starts to travel away from the landing area towards the party's first scientific site. The tents don't look too different from the type that Captain Scott or Shackleton used in the first twenty years of this century. Everything has to be reliable to withstand the worst of the Antarctic weather.
Food is cooked on primus stoves.
These are small stoves that burn paraffin. Food supplies are good but quite often the food is dehydrated, so before any cooking can start, snow has to be melted to make water. It sounds primitive but is good fun. To stay warm inside the tent everyone is provided with warm, thick sleeping bags. For when it is really cold there is a second to go inside the first.