Kilt at South Pole

[The Q]

Mostafa Salameh claims to be a resident of Scotland, which makes putting the kilt on backwards harder for me to understand. Are kilts so rare even in Edinburgh that one would have never seen them worn properly?

Edited to add: Mr. Salameh studied at Edinburgh University, and a quick google image search shows several pictures of students wearing kilts in formal occasions.

The only Kilts normally worn in Edinburgh, are in tartan shops, by half a dozen pipers spread around the city wearing full pipers dress, and the Armed forces marching up and down the Royal Mile to the Castle none of which are likely to be of interest to a student.

If you don't attend formal or informal occasions which provide Alcohol you are unlikely to be with Students wearing Kilts.

Sadly you put up notices and people don't see them, casually just seeing people in the street wearing a Kilt doesn't mean you notice how to put them on...

[Wareyin]

The only Kilts normally worn in Edinburgh, are in tartan shops, by half a dozen pipers spread around the city wearing full pipers dress, and the Armed forces marching up and down the Royal Mile to the Castle none of which are likely to be of interest to a student.

If you don't attend formal or informal occasions which provide Alcohol you are unlikely to be with Students wearing Kilts.

Sadly you put up notices and people don't see them, casually just seeing people in the street wearing a Kilt doesn't mean you notice how to put them on...

It is easy to forgive one who puts the kilt on backward if they have never seen how to do it the right way. I suppose Mr. Salameh has simply never paid attention to how it was worn if he has seen the kilt worn at all. It is easy to assume that anyone taking the effort to wear a kilt at the South Pole would have the same interest we on this forum have in ensuring it is worn properly, but not everyone who wears one has the same level of interest.

[TRWXXA]

Now hold on a minute, this really won't do! Whoever and whatever it matters not, it is still a pretty stout effort and is an achievement, in more ways than one, that few in this world will ever get the chance to do.

If you insist...

Huzzah. The three-hundred-and-somethingest person to ski to the south pole. History now has a new demarkation for "before" and "after" I'm saving up my tickertape for the big parade. Wake me when it starts.

[FinnKilt]

So his being a muslim is supposed to make us overlook the fact that he is really something like the 300th person to ski to the south pole?

Just wondering.

Rather a tacky response. Note that Mustafa was raising money for charity. So, lots of folk have walked 100 km in one go before me, but that didn't invalidate the charity clannge I did a couple of years back (in a kilt, but over the Pennines, not over Antarctica).
And no, he certainly won't have been skiing in a kilt, not in those temperatures. It was a photo op at the Pole – and yes, a pity he got the kilt on back to front, but he may actually have been in rather a hurry to get the pictures taken and then re-don his thermal gear!