Article: Rescued South Pole Worker Heads to U.S.


AP Online
09-22-2003
Dateline: PUNTA ARENAS, Chile


An ailing U.S. research worker, whose name is being withheld at his request arrives at Punta Arenas' Airport after being rescued from the U.S. research station in the South Pole some 1,350 miles (2,172 kilometers) from Punta Arenas, Chile, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003. The rescue flight had been delayed for days because of wind and snow during the southern hemisphere's spring season. It was the third such rescue in four years, and occurred in darkness. The sun doesn't come up at the South Pole until Tuesday.(AP Photo/Guido Arce)

After his daring rescue from the South Pole, an ailing American research worker left Monday on a flight to the United ...

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