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Article: Ailing worker heads for United States after South Pole rescue
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- September 22, 2003
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ROBERT WELLER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
09-22-2003
Dateline: CENTENNIAL, Colorado
The man evacuated from the South Pole in a daring rescue over the weekend will require surgery, co-workers said Monday as their colleague was flown toward home.
The man, whose name has been withheld at his request, was flying from the southern tip of Chile to Houston on a private jet. He was rescued by Canadian pilots in the darkness of the Southern Hemisphere winter at nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 meters).
"We had a break in the weather. It was only minus 70 degrees when the plane landed at the South Pole," said B.K. Grant, South Pole area director of the man's employer, Raytheon Polar Services in ...