A similar story last August with some discussion:

Scientists in Antarctica say they were left alone against sexual harassers

https://apnews.com/article/women-working-antarctica-sexual-h...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37285622)

Any pressure cooker situation with no accountability, the animal nature of humans come out.

The issue is that there should have been accountability, this isn't a few random people at the bottom of the world, this is a world of billion dollar govenrment contractors and academic institutions.

The Venn diagram of people who are obsessive enough to become the type of expert to go to Antarctica and sexual predators has a larger overlap than the Venn diagram of most professional populations and sexual predators.