This is what I see as the biggest hurdle that will need to be overcome for future DXpeditions. There are a lot of armchair DXpeditioners who like to think they understand the challenges of being somewhere extreme—and who wield a lot of influence, unfortunately—who would curl up in a ball as soon as they had to step off the boat and set up in extreme or even just mere "unpleasant" conditions.
Well just don't include me in your list of Armchair Quarter Backs.
As a grown ass man I got caught abroad with a crew while doing upgrades on a Telecom Satellite dishes uplink system. We went through a CAT5 Hurricane which was scary as ****. The Airport was wrecked and we got stuck and then when it was repaired a week later we got ordered to stay until the whole Satellite system was repaired and relinked to the Islands main telecom lines.
It started out as a kind of an adventure but that stopped being fun after a two weeks had passed.
In the end we got stuck for almost 6 months, we had No Electricity or running water as the Grid had to be rebuilt from the ground up.
We endured super hot weather 94-98 deg temps with 98% humidity day in and day out. All of the tree's had been leveled so the place was like a heated swamp!
We drank water that was collected from a river and boiled. We got eaten by Mosquitos until the bumps melted together into something that looked like a rash. We had to nurse the one Gas Generator we had using Black Market Gas that was 5 times higher than the regular price and also buy Gas from the few car owners who's cars were destroyed by trees etc during the Hurricane. Have you ever eaten Rice and Canned Bully Beef? That was just about the only thing we could find to eat for the first month or two.
So yeah I know what it's like to be suffering and that was not for 2 weeks, it was 6 months with no particular end in sight, no way to pull the plug until we got all the parts and got the system back up and running.