After days of delays, a rescue flight reached the South Pole on Saturday to pick up an ailing worker at a research station there. Snow and wind delayed the rescue attempt for five days while the ...

On Oct 25, 1991, I made my first trip to the US’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. I vividly remember landing on the ice runway onboard a ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules transport. Upon exiting ...

In that year, Dr. Jeri Nielsen, the only physician at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, critically needed medical supplies to treat her tele-medically diagnosed cancer. An LC-130 airland mission ...