Ariel Waldman

Parka, the gloves, the hat, etc.

But all of your layering underneath, your base layer, your mid-layer,

all of that is you have to get yourself and you're on the hook to buy that yourself.

That's not provided to you.

So for me, who had been in California for so long, I didn't have any cold weather gear at all.

So when I went to Antarctica, oh God, it was expensive.

Yeah, I had to go to like REI and all these other stores and figure out like, how do I do this?

I learned about merino wool and how important that is.

And then I also learned that like nearly all of the

cold weather stuff is made for men.

And I asked about, you know, women's clothing when I went to these stores and they were like, oh, well, we've got like yoga pants.

Oh my God.

It's still to this day where it's like some glacier hiking boots or something.

And they have like maybe one option if you're lucky for women.

And then it's like, oh, here's the eight options for men.

Yeah.

So it's like all of these sporting goods stores and everything and these athletic stores are like women like yoga and men like extreme cold sports.

And it was so upsetting because it's just ridiculous at this point.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.