More about the topic of drinking in Antarctica, this guy wrote the book about it

http://www.amazon.com/Big-Dead-Place-Menacing-Antarctica/dp/...

and years later killed himself after being rejected for another term there:

http://www.alternet.org/media/world-forgets-antarcticas-firs...

More recent experience, written by another past worker:

http://www.thefix.com/content/antarctica-alcohol-problem0043...