 My research is based on diaries and logbooks and I hope to find out on the data how the well-being was of the expedition members in the early stage of expeditions. A side effect of this is also that the data I can reveal can be also used by scientists to fill in gaps on their instrumental data. Though I speak from the Antarctic expeditions mainly, but I have also experienced from the Arctic expeditions. I looked at diaries from Scott's expedition like Royce and Farrah and from Shekelkin's expedition and especially the Rossi Party from the last expedition from Shekelkin. It's about the well-being and the social history, but also about the environmental history, how environment can have an influence on people. And it forms societies because that was a community, a society. This can also then apply to people today, if you like, when you see then at certain weather patterns people react in this or that way.