Actually, an Italian guy is about to start a bike hike to the South Pole. This is the first link I found to a page in English about it https://aminhacorrida.com/en/omar-di-felice-comes-back-to-at...

Thanks for the laugh. I send my australian friends photos of snowbanks and iced up hair. The hardest part if having a plan if something goes wrong, e.g. I'm not changing a tire or fixing a chain at that temperature. I've been tempted to wait on a bus at a slow train crossing. At least cold I can layer up with and move. I'd die at +40C.

> -25°C sounds like Antarctica, or Mars

I had that in my hometown in eastern France at 800m altitude, a town a few km away has a record of -41. -15/-20c was almost a yearly occurance when I was a kid